New Jersey Perinatal Quality Collaborative
Steps to improve care at New Jersey’s hospital birthing centers are likely to have saved hundreds of new mothers from fatal bleeding, dangerous high blood pressure or other pregnancy-related deaths over five years, according to a new report.
Read the full article at the NJ Spotlight News: Changes to pregnancy care saved lives in NJ, report says
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…
Washington State Perinatal Collaborative, Montana Alliance for Innovation of Maternal Health The first perinatal quality collaborative took root in California in 1997, [the CDC’s Jacqueline Wallace] noted, and there is now one in each state. “PQCs address gaps and reduce variation in care,” Wallace said. “It’s really critical because variation in care is a big…
A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study finds that around 1 in 8 women report experiencing symptoms of maternal depression. Perinatal depression is depression that occurs during or after pregnancy. Perinatal Mental Health is an urgent public health issue in the United States. In response to the national maternal perinatal mental health crisis, The…
BOSTON—Dr. Zsakeba Henderson will join the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality as a Senior Medical Advisor, where she will advise NICHQ President and CEO Scott D. Berns, MD, MPH, FAAP, to help advance the work of the organization to ensure every child achieves their optimal health. Dr. Henderson will also advise the VP of…
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…
BOSTON—The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) recently launched a new Department of Health Equity Innovation, led by VP of Health Equity Innovation Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA, with the goal of accelerating strategies that address systemic health inequities. “We’ve worked diligently over the past few years to infuse equity into everything we say and…