4590-1503 Maternal and Child Health

For the provision of statewide support services for maternal, child, and family health activities to pregnant people, parents, caregivers, infants, children, and youth, including those with special health needs, to maintain the public health infrastructure necessary for promoting racially equitable, evidence-based, data informed, and family-engaged services and programs; provided, that funds shall be expended for pediatric palliative care, Massachusetts Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, universal newborn hearing screening, perinatal neonatal quality improvement, and a doula certification program; provided further, that funds shall be expended for the pediatric palliative care program established in section 24K of chapter 111 of the General Laws; and provided further, that notwithstanding said section 24K of said chapter 111, children less than 22 years of age shall be eligible for this program