Maternal Health: Improving Quality Outcomes
Designing care that improves quality and patient safety contributes to improved pregnancy outcomes. These AHA resources highlight success stories of hospitals and health systems that focus on models of care aimed at improving their maternal care quality and outcomes.
with Ochsner Health
Veronica Gillispie-Bell, M.D., OB-GYN Ochsner Health discusses successful strategies to reduce maternal morbidity and how should they start with equity the forefront.
with Orlando Health
Learn how Orlando Health's telehealth hypertension program is reaching outside its walls to advance heart-healthy pregnancies and postpartum periods for new mothers.
with Main Line Health
Recipient of AHA’s 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care in the Transforming Category, Maine Line Health used data and AIM Safety Bundle to reduce C-section rates in communities of color.
Highlights strategies hospitals use to raise awareness and detect heart health needs during pregnancy and postpartum.
CDC’s Million Hearts® aims to prevent one million heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events over the next five years.
Podcast with CDC explores reasons behind the increase in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, its health outcomes, and what hospitals can do to identify and prevent associated complications.
with Missouri Hospital Association and Hannibal Regional Healthcare System
Missouri Hospital Association and Hannibal Regional Healthcare System share their efforts to prioritize hypertension control among pregnant and postpartum patients.
with Sutter Health
Sutter Health implemented continuous labor support, improved collaboration between care team members and reduced C-section and early-labor admission rates through its quality improvement program.
with Northwell Health
Northwell Health’s MOMs program decreases the incidence of preventable maternal morbidity and mortality in its community by focusing on care before conception, during pregnancy and through the “fourth trimester”.
with Kearny County Hospital
The Pioneer Baby program improves pregnancy and birth outcomes by reducing pregnancy complications while increasing breastfeeding rates.