IN SCR0027

Indiana General Assembly formally recognizes Perinatal Palliative Care personnel throughout the state for their work supporting families whose fetuses are diagnosed with chronic, life-limiting, or life-threatening conditions

Perinatal palliative care services include care planning after life-limiting diagnoses, attending medical appointments with families, locating home health care options, and providing funeral care assistance

Bereavement coordinators create mementoes, photographs, and keepsakes for families, while hospitals provide remembrance events including Christmas Memorials, Mother's Day and Father's Day events, and miscarriage burials

Resolution directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit copies to named personnel at Franciscan Health, IU Health, Eskenazi Health, Ascension St. Vincent Health, Community Health Network, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Photography, and one individual