FIMR

The Escambia County Healthy Start Coalition is honored to serve as the local Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) team for District 1 (Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Okaloosa County, and Walton County) in collaboration with The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention. FIMR strives to address the factors and issues that affect infant and fetal deaths by reviewing individual cases to understand the systemic issues in the district.

 

The review process consists of medical and social record audits, family interviews [to not only obtain information, but to help ensure families are supported after a loss], and the creation of a de-identified Case Summary. A Case Review Team [consisting of medical and community professionals] meets monthly to review and analyze the Case Summaries and makes recommendations for systemic level changes in our local community. A Community Action Group then works to implement the recommendations of the Case Review Team.

 

FIMR ​

Ensuring that all babies survive and thrive should be the concern of the whole community; it is an issue too multidimensional for responsibility to rest in any one place.  Fetal and infant deaths are sentinel events that illustrate system and resource issues. Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) teams are diverse, multidisciplinary groups of professionals who come together to examine de-identified individual cases of fetal and infant deaths to understand the “how” and “why” surrounding the death to prevent future deaths. The parent/family interview includes the voices of those who have lost an infant and offers information not available through routine quantitative methods, equipping teams to make more effective community recommendations. Reviews lead to identification of local factors contributing to fetal and infant mortality. View the FIMR Logic Model in PDF or editable PowerPoint format. (Source)