PPOC Quality Improvement Initiative

A project to improve care for children with asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obesity at the clinical level through site visits, a listserv, patient-level data collection and feedback reports.

Status: Inactive
January 2002 to December 2005

Who

The project involved nearly 40 primary care practices in Massachusetts associated with the Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s Hospital Boston.

Our Role

Provided expert assessment of pediatric provider care processes and recommendations for strategies to improve delivery of care for the provider’s initiative of choice (asthma, ADHD, or obesity). We also supported the formation of electronic patient registries.

Funder

The project was funded by the Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s Hospital Boston.

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 PPOC Quality Improvement 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