Maternal Health

The award-winning Beyond Birth podcast series helps bring hospital programs to life by telling personal stories of how they positively impact mothers and their families, writes Julia Resnick, AHA’s director of strategic initiatives.
The award-winning five-episode Beyond Birth podcast series covers some of the pressing issues facing maternal health and well-being.
Lora Sparkman, VP Patient Safety and Quality at Relias, dissects the key findings of their 2024 Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Prevention Report, exploring factors contributing to maternal mortality rates, disparities in health care access, and effective interventions to address these issues.
Health care organizations can create more inclusive, responsive and effective maternal health initiatives that address the unique challenges Black women encounter during pregnancy and childbirth by codesigning care with community partners.
AHA statement on policies to ensure rural patients continue to receive access to high-quality care.
By codesigning care with community partners, hospitals can proactively and collaboratively work toward improving Black maternal health outcomes.
In the final episode of this award-winning series, learn how health care organizations are supporting new moms to enable them to thrive at work, and most importantly, at home.
Heart health starts in the womb, according to researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who found that babies had better heart health after birth when their mothers exercised, even moderately, throughout pregnancy.
Given the pressures of parenting, learn how health care organizations are supporting new moms to enable them to thrive at work, and most importantly, at home, in the final episode of AHA’s “Beyond Birth” podcast series.
Mounting pressures on the health care workforce have created a crisis with short-term staffing shortages and a long-range picture of an unfulfilled talent pipeline, and significant projected shortages of physicians and allied health and behavioral health care providers will likely be felt even more…