Lead Agency/Contact: Ohio Department of Health, Division of Maternal, Child, Family Health /Reena Oza-Frank PhD, RD
Partners: Ohio State Senate; Ohio Department of Medicaid; Ohio State University Clinical Skills Education and Assessment Center; Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative; Ohio Hospital Association; March of Dimes; Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services; and ODH Violence and Injury Prevention. Partners include Celebrate One (Columbus); First Year Cleveland; Cradly Cincinnati; Ohio Commission on Minority Health; Columbus Public Health; Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; and the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Maternal Newborn Advisory Council. They also work with ODH Health Equity; Upper Midwest Telehealth Resource Center; Ohio Domestic Violence Network; Ohio CNM; Ohio Black Maternal Health Caucus; and Ohio Association of Community Health Centers
Related Initiatives & Collaboratives: Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (PAMR); Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) Hypertension Bundle; Ohio Maternity Licensure revisions; Healthy Start; Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative; and Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV)
MHLIC Coach: Kimberly Harper, MSN, RN, MHA
Outcome Measures: Maternal morbidity; Preventable maternal mortality; Disparity in morbidity and mortality; Overall health among reproductive-age women; Improved care interaction for minorities; Obstetric emergencies managed in ERs; # of postpartum women with emergencies seek care in ERs; # Maternal referrals for risks; Deliveries at appropriate levels of care; # of women who receive specialty care due to increased telemedicine access
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
- Create a Team Charter/tool to define purpose, guiding principles, methods, and accountability
- Task force tools for implementation to be modeled after current ODH Title V activities
- Data sources will be PAMR and state needs assessment
- Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review (PAMR) and Task Force will serve as complement to each other, with communication between groups
- Task force to meet 3 times a year; PAMR to meet 4 times a year
Improve the collection, analysis, and application of state-level data on maternal mortality and SMM
- Data to be sourced from PAMR and state-level data
- Publish annual report on maternal death with policy and programmatic recommendations for reduction of preventable maternal death
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
- Statewide implicit bias training for reduce impact of health disparities
- Implement telehealth training for provider and services for prenatal and postpartum women
- Simulation training with emergency medicine providers for obstetric emergencies
- Implement AWHONN post-birth warning signs education program in all hospitals
- Identify levels of maternity care for all birthing facilities
- Interventions to Minimize Preterm and Low Birth Weight through Continuous Improvement Techniques interconception care (IMPLICIT ICC) model for maternal health quality improvement