Health Care
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), with U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Boozman (R-Ark.), and U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), and Michael Burgess (R-Texas) introduced legislation to improve pregnancy outcomes and infant health by continuing research and education programs aimed at preventing preterm births.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) celebrated the passage of the Action for Dental Health Act and the Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Actin the House of Representatives. These bipartisan bills would reauthorize critical public health programs.
As the chorus of medical professionals weighing in on the gun debate grows louder, House Democrats are vowing to push gun legislation and funding for research with their new majority in the next Congress.
What: Non-partisan Congressional Maternal Health Field Inquiry, in collaboration with Advocate Children's Hospital. The field inquiry is intended to shine an urgent light on the status of women's health in preparation for motherhood and after giving birth. The findings of the hearing will contribute to a larger federal reporting and factfinding efforts to bolster a national response to curtail maternal mortality and near deaths.
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CHICAGO – The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced nearly $1.5 million to the University of Illinois-Chicago to identify and implement innovative strategies to address the maternal health crisis.
As the coronavirus spread across the country, federal and state governments relaxed restrictions during the public health emergency on the use of telehealth, providing additional means for patients to receive health care without risking their safety.
Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., wants the federal government to commission a wide-ranging study on the technology to inform Congress on telehealth's pros, cons and overall effectiveness before the relaxed telehealth policies are rolled back.
A bipartisan group of House members introduced legislation on Jan. 16 that would use broadband service data mapping to identify areas of the country where high rates of poor maternal health overlap with a lack of broadband service access.
Reps. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., and Susan Brooks, R-Ind., introduced the Data Mapping to Save Moms' Lives Act.
Today, U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL) released the following statement on the passing of former Congressman Louis Stokes, founding chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust.
Washington, DC - Congresswoman Robin Kelly, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust and Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR), released this statement on the COR's first full committee hearing on the high cost of prescription drugs: