PQCs in the News: Dartmouth Health and the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Launch PQC

Oregon Perinatal Collaborative The new state funding will allow OPC to not only maintain current programs, but also implement new health improvement initiatives in Oregon, including expanding efforts to treat and prevent substance use disorder during pregnancy and postpartum, and continuing the work of the Oregon Maternal Data Center, started in 2015, which reports on births in Oregon…

Arkansas Perinatal Quality Collaborative [Dawn Brown, ARPQC program director] says it takes a team effort to improve maternal outcomes. “Now, we’re kind of all moving in the same direction and getting everybody kind of under the same tent. Doing that work together, I think, is what’s going to be important for Arkansas,” Brown said. Read…

Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative Louisiana has been my home for more than 20 years. I know how strong we are and what power we have. All of the solutions to maternal morbidity and mortality are in front of us, but those solutions do not rely on one person or one entity. The solutions will only…

Nebraska Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative [Ann Anderson Berry] said she and many of her colleagues don’t necessarily trust the accuracy of self-reported data because race and ethnicity can also be assumed by medical providers, who then record it based on their assumptions into a patient’s health record. Nebraska also has an asterisk next to its…