Not pride in myself and what I’ve accomplished but pride in the NICHQ team, the organization’s laser focus, the robust partnerships, and the sustained changes we’ve made with and for the people we’ve served: the public health and clinical professionals, the community leaders, and the children and families who are the true motivation for this…
UnitedHealthcare Community & State is working with the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) through UnitedHealthcare’s Community Collaborative Partnership Program to address family health needs across the U.S. This program aims to promote sustainable, community-centered solutions to reduce infant mortality and improve maternal and child health outcomes.
Jenna Paritee: My name is Jenna Paritee, and I am the Communications Coordinator for the Healthy Start Technical Assistance and Support Center, also known as Healthy Start TASC. Here at Healthy Start TASC, we provide training and technical assistance to support Healthy Start, Healthy Start – Enhanced, and Catalyst grantees in improving their service delivery,…
Community-based maternal and child health initiatives are transforming how we approach care. Yet, across more than a decade of working with states and communities to improve maternal and infant outcomes, one truth continues to surface: physicians are often missing from the table.
Healthy Start is the only federal program focused explicitly on preventing infant mortality. Launched by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, it has worked in communities with infant mortality rates at least 1.5 times the national average, tailoring services to local needs—from mental health support after disasters to prenatal education and postpartum care. Today, 115…
Within that tenet, many public health professionals, including me, have championed the importance of bringing “uncommon partners” to the table: the people and organizations that may not first come to mind, but whose perspectives broaden and deepen our discussion. NICHQ and our partner organizations have worked hard to expand these voices and perspectives to ensure…
Introduction Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), or sleep-related infant death, is the single leading cause of death for infants between 1 month and 1 year of age. Every year, about 3,500 healthy babies die in their sleep, and their families suffer the devastating heartbreak of losing a child. Many of these deaths can be prevented….