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Improving Respectful Care Through Hear Her
NICHQ will leverage its role as the coordinating center for the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC), as well as the Hear Her Campaign and related respources, to improve and promote respectful birth and maternal health care.
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Community-Centered Hospital Initiative (CCHI)
The Community-Centered Hospital Initiative (CCHI) centers communities to uplift their capacity as leaders in improving perinatal and infant health by recognizing their expertise and building on their existing practices and processes.
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Maternal Health Action & Resource Center (MHARC)
The newly established MHARC will provide capacity building assistance (CBA), training, and technical assistance (TTA) to State Maternal Health Innovation awardees and other Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – Maternal and Child Health Bureau 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 for all populations in their communities in order to advance maternal health nationally.
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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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Quality Improvement Community of Learning
In partnership with ACOG’s Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM), NICHQ has developed a Quality Improvement Community of Learning (COL) to strengthen and support knowledge and understanding of Quality Improvement (QI) methodology.
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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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