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, Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, and Illinois Administrative Perinatal Centers
MHLIC Coach: Amy Mullenix, MSPH, MSW
Goals:
Establish and convene an Illinois Maternal Health Task Force
- Identify gaps in maternity care services in Illinois
- Develop a strategic plan to improve maternal health outcomes in Illinois
Improve State-Level Maternal Health Data & Surveillance
- Enhance data collection of the Illinois MMRC-V
- Expand the efforts of SMM review in Illinois
- Disseminate data findings about MM and SMM to major stakeholders, politicians, healthcare providers and the public
Promote & Execute Innovation in Maternal Health Service Delivery
- Support Administrative Perinatal Centers to ensure their network hospitals are up to date on best practices related to maternal care
- Support the Illinois Perinatal Health Quality Collaboration to develop a statewide birth equity initiative to reduce peripartum racial/ethnic disparities
- Ensure that Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting and other home visitors are an active part of the maternal mortality solution in Illinois
- Enhance the work of Illinois DocAssist to expand psychiatric consultation perinatal telehealth services
- Implement a comprehensive Two Generation Medical Home Research and Training Center (Two-GEtHeR Center) and open a UI Health Two-Generation Clinic