Healthy Births Care Quality Collaborative
About Care Quality
Ensuring that women receive equitable, quality, evidence-based perinatal care is a core component of the Healthy Births Initiative (HBI). The Healthy Births Care Quality Collaborative provides clinical and technical support in implementing systems change to enhance perinatal care delivery. At the core of HBI are goals to reduce rates of low birthweight and preterm birth and increase exclusive breastfeeding. Providing quality, coordinated, evidence-based perinatal care that is linked to community resources will help us reach those goals. Gains made in these areas can have an immediate impact on the lives of families, by reducing expenditures for medical care and leading to lifelong cost savings.
The potential impact of improved perinatal care extends beyond reduced low birth weight and preterm birth to having a positive impact on the health and behaviors of women, children and families. These benefits are likely to be magnified given the synergy of the collaborative approach linking community services to the health care system.
2008-2009 Healthy Births Care Quality Collaborative
About the Healthy Births Care Quality Collaborative
Training for the Collaborative builds on a national, evidence-based curriculum that assisting participants to focus on systems change and implementing specific prenatal care components where evidenced based, best practice standards exist. Throughout the process program participants will learn and use tools to make strategic, rapid changes to operational systems addressing areas such as perinatal depression, gestational diabetes, and nutrition screening. For more details please refer to the fact sheet.
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