Maternal and Child Health Resource Repository

Pregnant women around the country faced uncertainty upon the arrival of COVID-19.

In a new AHA Innovation Dialogue, AHA Maternal and Child Health Council Chair Lara Khouri, executive vice president and chief strategy and transformation officer at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, talks with SteelSky Ventures Founding Partner Maria Velissaris about where the fund, which invests in early-stage startups focused on improving women’s health outcomes, is headed.

Learn how Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego transformed behavioral health care for children.

Between 2011 and 2015, the number of children presenting to the ED for behavioral health concerns at Rady Children’s Hospital increased by 500%.

The webpage offers resources to help during the formula shortage.

California, Kentucky, Oregon and Florida extend Medicaid and CHIP postpartum coverage to 12 months.

Webinar will focus on pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. 

States encouraged to coordinate their federal funding streams to expand access. 

The 20-month pilot reduced hospitalizations for pregnancy-related, life-threatening complications by 47% overall and 69% among Black women.

Through its MOMs program, Northwell Health seeks to decrease the incidence of preventable maternal morbidity and mortality in its community, especially for women of color, by focusing on care before conception, during pregnancy and through the “fourth trimester” — the 12 weeks after delivery.

U.S. births rose 1% in 2021 to about 3.7 million, the first increase since 2014.

The action gives the HHS Secretary authority to allocate all ingredients necessary to manufacture infant formula in response to the U.S. shortage.

The mental health bill includes AHA-supported legislation that would reauthorize and expand a program that addresses maternal depression.

The program currently receives just 2% of total federal spending on graduate medical education. 

Speakers will share women’s mental health resources and discuss national policy and stakeholder engagement.

Nearly 30 organizations, including the AHA, urge congressional appropriators to increase funding for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program to $718.8 million in fiscal year 2023.

The agency is investigating 109 potential hepatitis cases of unknown cause in U.S. children since last October, including five deaths.

CDC is investigating 109 potential hepatitis cases of unknown cause in U.S. children since last October; over 90% of the patients were hospitalized.

HRSA will launch May 8 a toll-free hotline for expecting and new mothers experiencing mental health challenges.

Tennessee and South Carolina extend postpartum coverage from 60 days to 12 months after pregnancy for Medicaid and CHIP enrollees under the American Rescue Plan Act.