AMCHP Birth Outcomes Collaborative

A project to integrate IM CoIIN data from Public Health Regions IV and VI in NICHQ’s Collaboratory (CoLab), supporting data collection and management for the national expansion of the initiative.

Status: Inactive
September 2015 to September 2016

Who

IM CoIIN Learning Network participants in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

Our Role

Integrate IM CoIIN data from Public Health Regions IV and VI into CoLab to create a customizable dashboard that includes race/ethnicity data to successfully evaluate the initiative’s success in reducing and, ultimately, eliminating current racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality and other associated indicators.

Funder

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP)

Project Impact

reduction in severe maternal morbidity from hemorrhage among Black women
(Louisiana PQC, 2018-2020)
people involved in something
exciting things in progress

External Resources

State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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The Power of PQCs

Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.

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PQCs in the News

Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.

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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.

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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.

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Related Content

Resources produced by the AMCHP Birth Outcomes Collaborative 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.”

Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA
Executive Project Director and Equity Lead at NICHQ