New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Announces Proposed Rules Requiring Healthcare Professionals to Undergo Bias Training to Improve Quality of Maternal Care

The Division of Consumer Affairs announced proposed rules that would require physicians, nurses, and midwives who provide perinatal treatment and care to pregnant persons in New Jersey to undergo implicit and explicit bias training. The training is intended to address biases that negatively impact the quality of care delivered by healthcare providers to women of color during pregnancy, labor, delivery, postpartum, and neonatal periods. A similar proposed rule for physician assistants was published on June 17, 2024.