Healthy Births Care Quality Collaborative – Los Angeles Best Babies Network
A project to optimize infant health and development by improving the pregnancy and birth outcomes for families in Los Angeles County by supporting clinical practice systems change and linkages to community resources.
Who
The project engaged multiple care sites across Los Angeles County
Our Role
Provided technical assistance to train and coach First 5 LA educators on how to teach quality improvement principles to collaborative participants.
Funder
The project was funded by the Los Angeles Best Babies Collaborative Center for Healthy Births a Program of First 5 LA.
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the Healthy Births Care Quality Collaborative – Los Angeles Best Babies Network project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
