Women's Hospitals
President Trump on Dec. 21 signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act (H.R. 1318), AHA-supported legislation that will provide funding for states to develop maternal mortality review committees to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions.
Adventist Health White Memorial is connecting pregnant women and mothers who live in poverty to the resources and care they need to best support their children; four Detroit hospitals and health systems created a task force to dramatically reduce the region’s infant mortality rate; and The Northern…
The Senate yesterday passed and sent to the president for his signature AHA-supported legislation that would provide funding for states to develop maternal mortality review committees to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions.
The House of Representatives today passed AHA-supported legislation (H.R. 1318) that would provide funding for states to develop maternal mortality review committees to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions.
Parkview Hospital is one of the oldest – and only remaining – nonprofit hospitals in northeast Indiana. Parkview has a long history of community engagement based on reaching out and collaborating with community leaders and nonprofit agencies to deliver services, increase access, and address the…
Overview
About eight out of 1,000 babies born in Delaware die before their first birthday, compared with a national rate of about six out of 1,000.
AHA today joined more than 80 organizations in urging House and Senate leaders to bring H.R. 1318/S. 1112 to the floor for a vote before yearend. The AHA-supported legislation would provide federal funding for states to develop maternal mortality review committees to better understand maternal…
AHA hosted this special member webinar presentation and discussion on improving maternal health and reducing maternal mortality, the first in a series of webinars on this topic.
Robyn Begley, DNP, R.N., AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer and CEO of its American…
Sixteen years ago, Victoria Flanagan, R.N., M.S., and Michele Lauria, M.D., M.S., became increasingly alarmed as provider after provider closed vaginal-birth-after-a-caesarean (VBAC) programs across northern New England. Today, NNEPQIN consists of 43 organizations throughout New Hampshire, Vermont…
In 2001, a Samaritan Health Services (SHS) physician, Dr. Richard Wopat, recognized the need to improve birth outcomes of high-risk pregnant women in the region. In collaboration with various community and state partners, he started a pilot program in 2002 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center…