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Maternal Health: Improving Quality Outcomes
Designing care that improves quality and patient safety contributes to improved pregnancy outcomes. These AHA resources highlight success stories of hospitals and health systems that focus on models of care aimed at improving their maternal care quality and outcomes.
Innovating Virus Care for Pediatric Patients
Hospitals across the country have found innovative ways to increase their capacity, improve care and take care of health care workers while treating COVID-19 patients throughout this pandemic.
Maternal Health: Resources from the Field
These resources from expert professional groups can help hospitals optimize maternal safety and outcomes.
Transforming Data into Action to Improve Maternal Health
Speakers from Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association and Regional One Health discuss best practices on collecting, evaluating, and transforming data into actionable strategies and how hospitals and health systems can implement data-driven quality and performance improvement strategies to positively impact maternal health outcomes.
Culturally-Safe Maternal Care for Indigenous Women
In this conversation, Jennifer Richards, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Center for Indigenous Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Jennifer Crawford, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, discuss the perspectives needed to provide maternal care for Indigenous peoples.
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.
Federal Public Policy and Legislative Solutions for Improving Maternal Health Sept. 2024
At the federal level, several legislative initiatives specific to maternal mortality have been enacted. Several other initiatives have been introduced in Congress the last year.
Expanding Telehealth Services and Access for Successful Maternal Care
In this conversation, Johnna Nynas, M.D., OB/GYN at Sanford Health Bemidji, discusses the dramatic expansion of maternal telehealth capabilities in Minnesota.
New labor and delivery rooms give new parents more options
When parents-to-be opt to deliver their baby at a birthing center, it’s often because they want more freedom to choose their birth experience — such as pain management options, comfort techniques, assisted deliveries or just a more homelike setting.
Maternal and Child Health
Maternal and child health is a high priority for AHA and its member hospitals and health systems. We are driven to advance health for women and children through partnerships and innovation in the quality, cost and delivery of care. This work is guided by a committee composed of 15 individuals representing health care leadership from some of the country's leading women's and children's health provider organizations and systems.