Maternal Health: Societal Factors that Influence Pregnancy
Non-medical social factors can have a significant impact on a pregnant person’s health and well-being. These AHA resources highlight how hospitals can address their patients' social needs to achieve better health outcomes.
Recipient of the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Emerging category, Augusta Health's nurse maternal health navigator supports high-risk pregnant women, focusing on teenagers, women with substance use disorders, incarcerated women, and more.
An award-winning narrative podcast series explores how hospitals can improve perinatal outcomes for their patients by addressing their medical, social and emotional needs.
Blog summarizes AHA’s award-winning five-episode Beyond Birth podcast series, which covers some of the pressing issues facing maternal health and well-being.
with Ascension
This podcast investigates how the health system is addressing their patients’ social needs to ensure mothers and their babies can access care.
with Northwestern Medicine
Podcast discusses how health care organizations can enable new moms in their workforce to thrive at work and at home.
with Norwegian American Hospital
Norwegian American reinvests back into the neighborhood through programs, initiatives and outreach to serve low-income residents and the uninsured.
with Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center
Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center screens for medical and psychosocial issues and used its Samaritan Maternity Connection program provide outreach, education, and support to Hispanic/Latina women and teenage girls with pre-term and low-birth weight babies.