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Hospitals Are Prioritizing Maternal Health to Improve Patient Safety

Hospitals are prioritizing maternal health by focusing on patient safety throughout pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.
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When the Hospital CEO Becomes the Patient: Rural Maternal Care Up Close

Eilidh Pederson, CEO at Western Wisconsin Health, shares lessons from her unique birth experience, and outlines how rural hospitals can continue to provide needed access to safe, high-quality maternity health services.
Stories

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.
Stories

Postpartum Alert program boosts maternal safety

Columbus Community Hospital in Columbus, Neb., is striving to improve maternal health outcomes through the newly launched Postpartum Alert: A Life-Saving Maternal Safety Initiative.
Case Studies

Northwestern CDH TeamSTEPPS Success Story

Leaders choose TeamSTEPPS because it integrates well with existing patient safety program and starts rollout in Women and Children’s division.

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.
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MOMS Collaborative Reduces Disparate Outcomes with Northwell Health

In this Members in Action podcast featuring maternal and child health efforts, Aisha Syeda, program manager at the AHA is joined by leaders from Northwell Health.
Case Studies

2024 Equity of Care Awards Case Study: Main Line Health

Main Line Health’s strategic collection and utilization of data, as well as its targeted interventions to eliminate disparities within its community, have earned the not-for-profit health system the AHA’s 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Transforming category.
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Strategies for Improving Postpartum Hemorrhage Outcomes

AHA and Epic work to expand hospital use of tools that detect and treat postpartum hemorrhage, a serious childbirth complication.