Maternal and Child Health Resource Repository

Heart health starts in the womb, according to researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who found that babies had better heart health after birth when their mothers exercised, even moderately, throughout pregnancy.

. In this conversation, Jessica Galo, director of specialty care at AdventHealth for Children, and Jaeann Ashton, marketing director of Women's and Children's at AdventHealth, explore how the “Be a Mindleader” campaign is leading the way to improving adolescent mental health with these life-changing conversations.

Intermountain Health and Picterus AS, a Norwegian health technology company, are building an application using the smartphone’s camera that can determine bilirubin levels in infants accurately at home.

Given the pressures of parenting, learn how health care organizations are supporting new moms to enable them to thrive at work, and most importantly, at home, in the final episode of AHA’s “Beyond Birth” podcast series.

Mounting pressures on the health care workforce have created a crisis with short-term staffing shortages and a long-range picture of an unfulfilled talent pipeline, and significant projected shortages of physicians and allied health and behavioral health care providers will likely be felt even more strongly in underserved communities, AHA told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in a statement submitted for a hearing May 2.

AHA Statement to Senate HELP Committee on workforce diversity, maternal health.

Two behavioral health experts from Illinois-based Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital share how its intensive outpatient perinatal care program accommodates new moms who need an elevated level of support.

In this conversation, two behavioral health experts from Ascension's outpatient program share the formula for its success in helping at-risk new moms.

AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies initiative April 29 released a resource highlighting strategies hospitals are implementing to raise awareness and detect heart health needs early, during and after pregnancy.

This resource highlights the risk factors and disparities that contribute to heart conditions in pregnancy, shares actionable solutions for providers, and offers strategies hospitals are implementing strategies to raise awareness and detect heart health needs early, during and after pregnancy.

Chris DeRienzo, M.D., AHA’s Senior Vice President and Chief Physician Executive, discusses pediatric sepsis and what we can do to prevent, recognize and treat it.

Kittitas Valley Healthcare in rural Washington state last year implemented an innovative new model for retaining essential obstetric and other women’s health services in its community.

The Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program, part of the DanceBlue Kentucky Children’s Hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic, held the “Unlock Your Future” college and career fair targeted towards AYA patients.

O.D. Wyatt High School in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 2024 opened an on-campus grocery store, housed in a portable building and brimming with fresh produce, meat and nonperishable items for students and their families.

Wisconsin children and families in need of immediate mental health care can now walk in to a brand-new clinic in Kenosha, thanks to a $3 million donation from the charitable wing of the department store retail chain Kohl’s.

Michael Pitt, M.D., a pediatric hospitalist at M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital, helped create a mobile application that sends real-time notifications to patients’ families on when their doctors are making their rounds, creating opportunities for those families to see them.

Situated in Ellensburg in the heart of central Washington, Kittitas County Public Hospital District No. 1, also known as Kittitas Valley Healthcare (KVH), provides care to Kittitas County and surrounding areas.

As we're observing Black Maternal Health Week this year, there is still an ongoing crisis affecting Black mothers in America's health care system.

Two caregivers discuss how Colorado’s San Luis Valley Hospital creatively maximizes its resources to continue to deliver obstetric services to the families and communities it serves.

In this conversation, San Luis Valley Hospital's Monica Hinds, R.N., director of emergency services and obstetrics, and Stephanie Posorske, certified nurse midwife, discuss their approach to cross-training units with minimal resources, and partnering with community stakeholders to keep the lights on for new and future families.