Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM)

AIM is a national data-driven maternal safety and quality improvement initiative based on interdisciplinary consensus-based practices to improving maternal safety and outcomes. The program provides implementation and data support for the adoption of evidence-based patient safety bundles, found here. AIM works through state teams and health systems to align national, state, and hospital level engagement efforts to improve overall maternal health outcomes.

Bundles include topics, including:

• Obstetric Hemorrhage

• Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy

• Safe Reduction of Primary Cesarean Birth

• Cardiac Conditions in Obstetrical Care

• Care for Pregnant and Postpartum  People with Substance Use Disorder
  • Obstetric Care for Women with Opioid Use Disorder

• Postpartum Discharge Transition

• Sepsis in Obstetrical Care – in development 

• Prevention of Surgical Site Infections After Gynecologic Surgery

• Enhanced Recovery After Major Gynecologic Survery

Support implementing Bundles:

• Postpartum Basics: From Birth to Postpartum Visit

• Postpartum Basics: From Maternity to Well-Woman Care

• *Maternal Mental Health: Perinatal Depression and Anxiety

• Maternal Venous Thromboembolism

• Reduction of Peripartum Racial and Ethnic Disparities

• *Retained Vaginal Sponges After Birth

• Support After a Severe Maternal Event