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Better Health for Mothers and Babies

Through the AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies Initiative, the AHA is working alongside hospitals and health care systems to help mothers and their babies thrive.
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Better Health for Mothers and Babies Toolkit: Discussion Guide

This discussion guide is designed to help teams of health care leaders identify opportunities to advance their pregnancy and postpartum care strategies. The questions are aligned with the four core principles that AHA encourages hospitals to apply to their maternal health improvement efforts.
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Better Health for Mothers and Babies Webinar Series: Core Principles in Action

This 4-part webinar series showcases hospitals and health care organizations putting each principle into action to improve outcomes.
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Better Health for Mothers and Babies Toolkit: Issue Brief

Hospitals and health systems play a critical role in improving maternal and infant health outcomes throughout the perinatal period. Through the Better Health for Mothers and Babies Initiative, the AHA is catalyzing hospitals’ ongoing commitment to reducing disparities in maternal health outcomes.
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Toxic: A Black Woman's Story

Toxic: A Black Woman’s Story is a film developed to address the root causes of infant mortality and racial disparities in infant mortality rates.
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Hospitals and health systems can play an important role in ensuring children and adolescents receive the behavioral health care they need to thrive.
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Designing Pregnancy Care to Meet the Needs of Hispanic Families

In this conversation, Jennifer Cohen, M.D., medical director of the Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, King of Prussia, and Katie Costantini, director of maternal care services at Chester County Hospital, discuss the barriers that can affect maternal care in Hispanic populations, and how deploying bilingual volunteers provided the opportunity to learn what worked and what could be improved.
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Maternal Health: Resources from the Field

These resources from expert professional groups can help hospitals optimize maternal safety and outcomes.
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Maternal Mental Health

Maternal Mental HealthMental health and substance use issues are the leading underlying causes of maternal morbidity and mortality.