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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.
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AHA Comments on RFI on Rural Maternal Labor and Delivery Costs

AHA responds to the Healthy Moms and Babies Act request for information on a low-volume payment adjustment for home health models for pregnant and postpartum women.
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‘Let’s Go!’ initiative is decreasing childhood obesity in Maine

Launched nearly 20 years ago by MaineHealth and several community partners, Let’s Go! is a community engagement initiative designed to increase healthy eating and active living and decrease obesity.
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Caring for Our Kids: Children's Colorado Is Meeting the Needs of Medically Complex Patients

In today's new Caring for Our Kids episode, explore how Children's Hospital Colorado designed seamless care for medically complex kids and their families.
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Certified midwives tapped to eliminate ‘maternity care deserts,’ expand OB/GYN services in Illinois

Women's access to specialized health care is expanding in Illinois because of a collaboration between Bloomington's Advanced Women's Healthcare and OSF Healthcare to integrate certified midwives into OSF Healthcare's system.
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Denver Health Doctors Take on Dental Duties to Reach Low-Income and Uninsured

Denver Health is integrating basic dental services into patient care routines, pulling aside the traditional wall between the two disciplines.
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Meeting Demand: Creating a New Pipeline of Health Care Workers

Grady Health System’s Yolanda Wimberly, M.D., senior vice president and chief health equity officer, and Felicia Mobley, Ph.D., director of health equity, discuss their new teen experience and leadership program.
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It Takes a Village: A New Approach to Opioid Abuse Helps Mothers and Babies

In this conversation, Chris DeRienzo, M.D., SVP and chief physician executive at the AHA, speaks with three WISH Center experts about how its approach is helping to protect the health of new mothers and their babies.
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Caring for Our Kids: How OHSU is Addressing Psychosocial Needs in Complex Pediatric Patients

In this new “Caring for Our Kids” episode, David Wagner, Ph.D., pediatric psychologist at OHSU, discusses the Novel Interventions in Children's Healthcare (NICH) program, and how this innovative approach is transforming care for vulnerable children.
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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.