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- Governor Maura Healey proposed free nurse home visits for all parents with newborns and new perinatal mental-health screening rules.
- She requested $2 million to fund the program for roughly 68,000 newborns annually.
- Healey also proposed a $250,000 investment in the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms.
- The Department of Public Health will revise regulations to improve mental-health screening of mothers during and after pregnancy.
- Maternal-mortality data show mental illness caused 38% of deaths 2019-2024, 85% deemed preventable, mostly after week one postpartum.
