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Community-Centered Hospital Initiative (CCHI)
The Community-Centered Hospital Initiative (CCHI) aims to address the stark and persistent disparities in the health outcomes of mothers, birthing people, and infants by strengthening collaboration and power-sharing between communities and hospitals.
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Maternal Health Action & Resource Center (MHARC)
The newly established Maternal Health Action & Resource Center (MHARC) will provide capacity building assistance (CBA), training, and technical assistance (TTA) to State MHI and other HRSA MCHB award recipients. This center will broadly share and disseminate information about evidence-based strategies and guidance with the purpose of enhancing and strengthening recipients’ ability to improve maternal health outcomes and reduce the significant disparities faced by certain populations.
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Supporting Healthy Start Performance Project
Healthy Start is a community-based federal program seeking to eliminate disparities in infant mortality and perinatal outcomes by working to improve systems of community care in communities with infant mortality rates at least 1.5 times the U.S. national average.
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Enriching ECHO (Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes) cohorts with High-risk Pregnancies and Children with Disabilities
The goal of the ECHO Program is to understand the effects of a broad range of early environmental influences on child health and development. ECHO aims to enhance the health of children and adolescents through research that may help inform healthcare practices, programs, and policies and create a culture that helps teams of child health researchers work together to achieve the best results. The Enriching ECHO with Disabilities cohort seeks to advance disability inclusivity in ECHO research. NICHQ supports data collection and clinical research management for three clinical sites directly enrolling participants into the ECHO study.
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Family Engagement and Leadership in Systems of Care
The purpose of the FELSC program is to enhance engagement of families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and individuals with lived experience, within the systems that serve them. FELSC includes two projects: 1) providing national family engagement leadership to support maternal and child health programs that serve CYSHCN and 2) providing TA to Family to Family Health Information Centers.
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United Healthcare Catalyst Initiative: Infant Health Equity
United Healthcare and NICHQ are partnering with Healthy Start grantees and communities to address upstream causes of inequities in maternal and infant health.
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National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
NICHQ works to enhance the coordination and communication of perinatal quality collaboratives across the nation, with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes for mothers and newborns.
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Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention
The Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Program’s purpose is to reduce the overall rates of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in SUID; to guide improvements; and to identify and support policy changes that address state- and community-specific SUID risks.
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Hemoglobinopathies National Coordinating Center
NICHQ collaborates with Abt Global to manage the Hemoglobinopathies National Coordinating Center (HNCC) and provide support to sickle cell disease healthcare providers and community-based organizations.
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Florida CMS Learning and Action Network
By building the quality improvement (QI) capacity of specialty programs, this Learning and Action Network will grow and support a high-quality system of care in Florida that serves all children and youth with special healthcare needs (CYSHCN), regardless of insurance status and location.