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Proclamation 10365

Black Maternal Health Week, 2022

This proclamation declares April 11-17, 2022 as Black Maternal Health Week, calling attention to racial disparities in maternal health outcomes. It describes existing administration efforts including Medicaid postpartum coverage expansion, veterans' maternal health legislation, and planned CMS hospital quality designations, but does not itself create new programs or direct specific agency actions with binding effect.

Federal Register Open PDF 87 FR 22095

Impact dates

  1. Black Maternal Health Week begins

Key directives

  • Proclaim April 11 through April 17, 2022 as Black Maternal Health Week
  • Call upon all Americans to raise awareness of Black maternal health

Timeline

Immediate

  • Proclamation of April 11-17, 2022 as Black Maternal Health Week

Near term (90d)

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Long term

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Risks & tensions

  • Proclamation describes past and intended agency actions (CMS quality designation, SAMHSA grant program) but these are not directives created by this document; actual policy changes require separate regulatory or administrative action
  • Vague 'year ahead' language with no concrete commitments or deadlines
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