Maternal Health: Interdisciplinary Workforce
A comprehensive and coordinated care approach among health care professionals can improve health outcomes. Resources below highlights ways hospitals and health systems are implementing diverse perspectives and skillsets to meet various needs of mothers and families.
with Northwestern Medicine
Northwestern Medicine is supporting new moms to enable them to thrive at work, and most importantly, at home.
with Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
The hospital used TeamSTEPPS to reinforce Maternal Early Warning Signs (MEWS) protocols for hypertension.
with Northwestern Medicine
The hospital used TeamSTEPPS, and designed a multidisciplinary training for nurses, health unit coordinators, scrub technicians, obstetricians and anesthesiologists.
with Providence Swedish Hospital
Doulas serve an important role in prenatal and postpartum care and can work with clinicians to reduce maternal and infant health disparities.
with Children’s Hospital of San Antonio
The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio conducts simulation drills using Practicing for Patients, a free obstetrics simulation program, on its labor and delivery unit to practice standardized treatment and communication protocols.
with Virtua Voorhees Hospital
Virtua Voorhees established an independent laborists model to reduce C-section rates for first-time, low-risk moms.
with Brookings Health System
Brookings Health System established the state’s first free doula program for delivery and postpartum care, staffed by volunteers.
with UnityPoint Health
The CenteringPregnancy Care to Mitigate Racial Disparities Program is an evidence-based prenatal care and peer support program designed to lower rates of preterm and low birth weight babies, ultimately eliminating existing racial disparities.
Blog shares takeaways on how health care organizations can provide equitable, culturally appropriate and interdisciplinary maternal care to women of color.