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.

Status: Active

September 2024 to September 2027

Centering communities to uplift their capacity as leaders in improving perinatal and infant health.

The National Institute for Children’s Healthy Quality (NICHQ) envisions a world where every community, filled with realized power, leads transformative efforts that achieve optimal health for mothers and their infants. NICHQ aims to create a new framework in which communities lead and collaborate with trusted community-based organizations (CBOs), healthcare entities, and Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (PQCs), focusing on joint initiatives to optimize health outcomes for mothers and infants.

The Community-Centered Hospital Initiative will focus on balancing the power dynamic between communities and hospitals through a partnership with a trusted CBO and the involvement of PQCs charged with advancing birth equity.

Who

NICHQ, CBOs, state PQCs, and hospitals in six communities across the US.

Our Role

NICHQ will serve as the national coordinating center to provide cross-geography support, partnering with state PQCs to leverage local partnerships. The aim is for CBOs to engage with local hospitals on topics that are high priority to the community, supported by CCHI Community Engagement Coordinators (CEC). Various community-based engagement activities, such as listening sessions, will facilitate partnerships and collectively center the community voice. CCHI will incorporate the building of a replicable program model in a set of pilot states during the first three years, with expansion planned across pilot states and, ultimately, across the nation to achieve this new paradigm over time.

Funder

The Studio @ Blue Meridian invests in social sector organizations to accelerate their readiness to significantly scale their reach, impact, and influence. Blue Meridian launched The Studio to fill clear gaps in the social sector funding market that restrict leaders looking to experiment and iterate upon their existing models – gaps that are exacerbated by persistent racial inequities. The Studio is a central pillar of Blue Meridian Partners’ commitment to collaboration and experimentation in pursuit of boosting the economic mobility of those trapped in poverty.

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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