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NICHQ Awarded $6.9M to Eliminate Disparities for Black Mothers and Birthing People and Their Infants

BOSTON – The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) announces an award of $6.9M in growth funding to promote a new paradigm in which Communities, Hospitals, and state Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (PQCs) work together to eliminate disparities in maternal and infant mortality. This significant award will launch the Community-Centered Hospital Initiative (CCHI), developed by…

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NICHQ Prepares for Upcoming Spring Maternal Child Health Conference

The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) is preparing for an exciting spring 2023 conference season, where staff will give poster presentations and facilitate workshops at a variety of national maternal and child health conferences. Several project teams will represent NICHQ at the 2023 Association of Maternal Child Health Programs (AMCHP) Annual Conference, which…

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Doula Support Improves Maternal and Child Health Outcomes, Patient and Family Engagement

In honor of World Doula Week, celebrated annually March 22-28, The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) held a conversation with LaToshia Rouse, CD/PCD(DONA), owner of Birth Sisters Doula Services. Rouse currently serves as the Patient and Family Engagement Co-Chair of the National Network for Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Executive Committee and joined NICHQ’s Board…

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Supporting Indigenous Families for Improved Health Outcomes

NOTES ON LANGUAGE: A variety of language is used to describe the people who first inhabited the North American continent before colonizers arrived in the 15th century, continuing through the annexation of Hawai’i in 1898. What vocabulary we use depends on whether we are quoting someone else’s language, talking about legal matters, statistics, or data…