Collaborate for Healthy Weight
A groundbreaking initiative that brought together teams of primary care providers, public health professionals and leaders of community organizations to identify, test and evaluate evidence-based interventions and promising practices to prevent and treat obesity and overweight at the community level.
Who
The collaborative involved a total of 49 teams from across the United States.
Our Role
This project was funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration. Partners for this work included: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Kaiser Permanente, Maine Medical Center, National Association of Community Health Centers, National Association of County and City Health Officials, and Nemours.
Funder
Facilitated a Breakthrough Series learning collaborative to apply quality improvement methodology to obesity prevention. Provided an environment for rapid-cycle testing and the robust exchange of ideas with the support of world-class obesity and quality improvement experts.
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 Collaborate for Healthy Weight 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.”
