MHLIC’s National Maternal Health Innovation Symposium includes recorded “Spark Sessions” featuring innovative practices designed to improve maternal health. What are Spark Sessions? Spark Sessions are short on-demand videos featuring practices being […]
Spark Sessions
Addressing the Maternal Mortality Crisis in the Ambulatory Setting: A Quality Improvement Approach
Addressing the Maternal Mortality Crisis in the Ambulatory Setting: A Quality Improvement Approach
The Chicago Collaborative for Maternal Health, led by AllianceChicago and EverThrive Illinois, aims to improve maternal health outcomes in the ambulatory care setting via quality improvement initiatives, community engagement, and […]
The Well-Woman Chart: A Preventive Health Services Tool For All Women
The Well-Woman Chart: A Preventive Health Services Tool For All Women
Developed by a coalition of national health professional organizations and consumer and patient advocates, the Well-Woman Chart is a comprehensive tool that summarizes preventive services recommendations for women. The Women’s […]
Hybrid telesimulation with standardized patients increases healthcare professionals’ translation of skills to the care of breastfeeding mothers and infants
Hybrid telesimulation with standardized patients increases healthcare professionals’ translation of skills to the care of breastfeeding mothers and infants
This session details the development of a Lactation Support in a Telehealth Setting Course (The Course) with a high-fidelity breast model. The online, asynchronous course spans topics in clinical lactation, […]
National Doula Network: Changing lives one birth at a time
National Doula Network: Changing lives one birth at a time
The National Doula Network is a provider network of credentialed, certified doulas that are reimbursed a living wage for providing birth doula services to Medicaid families in Florida. Beyond securing […]
Integrating Behavioral Health and Community Outreach in a Free-Standing Birth Center
Integrating Behavioral Health and Community Outreach in a Free-Standing Birth Center
The Midwife Center for Birth and Women’s Health has started two new programs to better serve Medicaid beneficiaries. The first program was an integrated behavioral health program to engage pregnant […]
Iowa Statewide Implementation of AWHONN’s POST-BIRTH Warning Signs
Iowa Statewide Implementation of AWHONN’s POST-BIRTH Warning Signs
According to recent statistics in Iowa’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee report, 56% of the maternal deaths reviewed were postpartum deaths. Iowa is implementing statewide AWHONN’s POST-BIRTH Warning Signs (PBWS) Education […]
Refinement of the New Jersey Maternal Health Hospital Report Card- Year 2018
Refinement of the New Jersey Maternal Health Hospital Report Card- Year 2018
In response to the high pregnancy-associated death ratio in New Jersey (NJ) of 46.9 per 100,000 live births 2013-2015, in August 2018, a bill was signed into law requiring the […]
Building on Strong Start: Alongside Midwifery Units expand access to birth center care
Building on Strong Start: Alongside Midwifery Units expand access to birth center care
The Midwifery Center is a collaboration between the ambulatory (El Rio Health) and acute care (Tucson Medical Center) organizations to provide eligible mothers seen by the midwifery service in the […]
Innovative Solutions: It Takes a Village—Reducing Maternal Mortality in Philadelphia through Coordinated Action
Innovative Solutions: It Takes a Village—Reducing Maternal Mortality in Philadelphia through Coordinated Action
Philadelphia has been a leader in addressing maternal mortality by creating the nation’s first non-state-based Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC) in 2010. Organizing Voices for Action, otherwise known as the […]
A TeamSTEPPS- based Communication Quality Improvement Project for Effective and Efficient Transfer from Birth Center to Hospital
A TeamSTEPPS- based Communication Quality Improvement Project for Effective and Efficient Transfer from Birth Center to Hospital
This session details the work of a quality improvement collaborative to improve communications during transfers from birth centers to hospitals. Specifically, the presenter focuses on the effectiveness of the debriefing […]
Postpartum Support International – Georgia Chapter
Postpartum Support International – Georgia Chapter
The Georgia chapter of Postpartum Support International and the Georgia chapter of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies is partnering with faith-based and other community partners to establish virtual mental health peer […]
Expanding Telehealth for Improved Maternal Outcomes
Expanding Telehealth for Improved Maternal Outcomes
A University Health System representative discusses planning stage efforts to connect providers in the Uvalde and Del Rio service areas to their rural health patients and to specialty care at […]
Nurse home-visitation and COVID-19 pandemic: Adjusting to meet the needs of families in complex times
Nurse home-visitation and COVID-19 pandemic: Adjusting to meet the needs of families in complex times
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is an evidence-based community health program that addresses disparities in the health and well-being of first-time families living in poverty. By pairing expectant mothers with specially-trained, registered […]
It takes a Village: The Maternal Wellness Village
It takes a Village: The Maternal Wellness Village
There is a fundamental need for multilevel interventions emerging from the lived- experience and expertise of Black women that provide support from early pregnancy through the end of the first […]
The Cuff Kit Project: “Self-Monitored Blood Pressure to Improve Diagnosis of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy During Remote Healthcare
The Cuff Kit Project: “Self-Monitored Blood Pressure to Improve Diagnosis of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy During Remote Healthcare
The Cuff Kit™ program distributes BP devices and associated patient education materials to healthcare providers and community health workers who care for high risk patients in a telehealth environment to […]
Addressing COVID stress among pregnant & parenting women in West Baltimore
Addressing COVID stress among pregnant & parenting women in West Baltimore
B’more for Healthy Babies Upton/Druid Heights (BHB U/DH) is a program focused on improving birth outcomes in the Upton/Druid Heights neighborhood of West Baltimore. Program efforts include community outreach to […]
Bringing Kenyan maternal health innovation to North Carolina: Launching a scalable textline platform to help support pregnant and postpartum parents during COVID
Bringing Kenyan maternal health innovation to North Carolina: Launching a scalable textline platform to help support pregnant and postpartum parents during COVID
Jacaranda Health discusses adaptation of its existing technology infrastructure and experience supporting over 150,000 pregnant and postpartum women in Kenya, to create a helpdesk for North Carolina moms in partnership […]
New approaches to engaging the community in needs assessment and planning
New approaches to engaging the community in needs assessment and planning
Kansas University Center for Public Partnerships & Research reports on efforts to use innovative mixed-methods approaches to engage and involve families and community members in a statewide needs assessment. This […]
Iowa Program Targets Seat Belt Safety for Pregnant and Postpartum Women
Iowa Program Targets Seat Belt Safety for Pregnant and Postpartum Women
A multi-parter iniative in Iowa reports on their success creating a statewide social media campaign to remind pregnant and postpartum women that seat belts are safe for mom and safe […]
Incorporating Patient-Partners in Safety and Quality Improvement Programs: Training and Tools for Providers
Incorporating Patient-Partners in Safety and Quality Improvement Programs: Training and Tools for Providers
MoMMA’s Voices Coalition trains and supports women with lived experiences to actively and effectively participate as patient-partners. The Coalition does this through the Champions for Change Summit as well as […]
Helping families communicate what’s important and make informed decisions
Helping families communicate what’s important and make informed decisions
[M]otherboard Birth builds online tools helping parents and their care team communicate efficiently and effectively about informed consent situations to improve patient satisfaction around the birth experience. The web-based parent […]
Spark Session: NewMomHealth.com: By moms, for moms
Spark Session: NewMomHealth.com: By moms, for moms
During this session, Dr. Kristin Tully discusses an online hub for postpartum health information and support. The site is open-access, non-commercial and co-designed with those we are seeking to serve. […]