Lead Agency/Program Director: University of Illinois at Chicago/ Dr. Elizabeth Glassgow
Partners: Illinois Department of Public Health’s Office of Women’s Health and Family Services/Title V
Related Initiatives & Collaboratives: Maternal Mortality Review Committee; Maternal Mortality Review Committee for Violent Deaths; Immediate Post Partum (PP) Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) Initiative; Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative; Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program
MHLIC Coach: Amy Mullenix, MSPH, MSW
Outcome Measures: Timely and appropriate postpartum care; mental health screening, resources and treatment; substance us screening and resources; contraception and family planning; referral to care; identification of medical home; attendance at well-care/preventive visits; continuity of care
Goals:
Establish a state-focused Maternal Health Task Force to create and implement a strategic plan that incorporates activities outlined in the state’s most recent State Title V Needs Assessment
- Develop charter document for MHTF, outlining partnership roles, deliverables and decision-making processes
- Review IL Title V Needs Assessment and Annual MMRC report to identify maternal health indicators
- Develop actionable recommendations from strategic plan
Improve the collection, analysis, and application of state-level data on maternal mortality and SMM
- Standardize and improve state-wide SMM case review and dissemination processes
- Collaborate with each administrative perinatal center to provide training to birthing facilities on best practices for SMM review
- Hire staff person to dedicate time to abstract medical records for MMRC violent death case review
Promote and execute innovation in maternal health service delivery, such as improving access to maternal care services, identifying and addressing workforce needs, and/or supporting postpartum and interconception care services, among others
- Implement maternal levels of care using CDC LOCATe (tentative strategy if Title V pursues by 2024)
- Adapt two-generation approach and expand postpartum care efforts at well-baby visits, including PPD screening
- Expand postpartum home visiting programs to connect with women earlier than traditional 4-6 weeks postpartum facility check-up
- Build on existing telehealth services via Illinois DocAssist to reach underserved and rural communities
- Support IL Perinatal Quality Collaborative develop strategies to identify pregnant and postpartum women in ED and engage in consults with OB team.
- Collaborate with Perinatal Quality Collaborative to improve birth equity and reduce peripartum racial and ethnic disparities
- Expand psychiatric consultation telehealth services in central and southern IL
- Train providers to screen for post partum depression at four prenatal care visits.