Maternal and Child Health Resource Repository

What began as a holiday trip to visit grandparents on a church mission in Uruguay turned into a life-threatening medical emergency for 3-year-old Estelle Santiago of Midway, Utah.

Improving child and adolescent health in the U.S. is a priority for the AHA and our member hospitals and health systems. Hospitals are recognizing the many factors influencing a child’s well-being and driving solutions to improve outcomes for all.

In this conversation, Kardie Tobb, D.O., a non-invasive preventative cardiologist at Cone Health, explains how multidisciplinary teams are breaking down clinical silos, emphasizing preconception care, and coordinating care across specialties to support healthier pregnancies and healthier families.

Children’s Hospital Colorado helped the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers develop new national standards to improve how developmental and cognitive challenges are identified and managed in people with sickle cell disease (SCD).

Maternal mortality remains a critical challenge in the United States, and many pregnancy complications are linked to chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease.

Hospitals have improved outcomes for patients who have just given birth with silicone wristbands that read, “I Gave Birth,” a simple visual reminder for mothers and their caregivers

Gabriela Jimenez Thompson, program lead of Our Story Begins at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and Liliana Escobar, R.N., NICU head nurse at Bellevue Hospital Center, share how the Our Story Begins program uses books, reading, language and nurse education to strengthen NICU parent engagement, bonding and early childhood development.

A 16-year-old Kansas patient is looking toward a future with fewer health limitations after receiving a heart transplant at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.

The University of New Mexico Hospital has completed a major expansion and modernization of its Children’s Psychiatric Center in Albuquerque.

The Health Resources and Services Administration Aug. 12 announced a modernized framework for addressing national newborn screening topics, which includes evaluating conditions for inclusion in the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel.

President Trump signed an executive order Aug. 10 revamping the federal government’s recommended childhood vaccine schedule.

Born in Idaho Falls at just 22 weeks gestation and weighing only 1 pound 4 ounces, Logan Ames faced overwhelming odds as a micro-preemie. One year later, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center celebrated his first birthday, celebrating not only Logan’s survival but also the dedication of the doctors, nurses, and family members who supported him through 163 days in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Ambulatory care is expected to become the “new center of gravity” for health systems over the next decade, with outpatient volumes projected to grow 20% by 2036, according to the 2026 Impact of Change forecast from Vizient.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced July 31 that it awarded $73.2 million in grants for children’s mental health, suicide prevention and assisted outpatient treatment programs.

More than two decades after its launch, Ascension Wisconsin’s Blanket of Love program continues to help families thrive by providing expectant parents with access to critical health, education and community resources.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation has launched the Advancing Doulas and Perinatal Teams Toolkit, a new resource designed to help hospitals better integrate doulas into maternal care teams and improve outcomes for mothers and infants.

When a child is diagnosed with a serious illness, parents are faced with a tsunami of emotions, information, choices — and stress. One researcher at UVA Health Children's has found a way to communicate complicated information to parents: Paint them a picture.

CD19-positive mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is one of the rarest forms of blood cancer. It’s also one of the deadliest; the median survival rate is usually months. And there has been no FDA-approved treatment — until now.

A gene therapy called LYFGENIA is transforming the way sickle cell disease is treated in children — but it isn’t easy to administer, and it’s not yet widely available.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration July 27 released results from its latest national survey on drug use and mental health.