COLORADO PERINATAL CARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE

DECEMBER 2017NEWSLETTER

WELCOME JAIME CABRERA, MPHJaime is the new Executive Director for CPCQC and we are so excited to have her join the team. Jaime starts her new position next month and will introduce herself in the January newsletter.

The CDC State-based Perinatal Quality Collaborative: 2017 PQC Kick-off Meeting

Executive Committee Members Dr. Torri Metz and Dr. Meghan Donnelly, along with Shivani Mehta Bhatia, Maternal Child Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, had the privilege of flying to Atlanta in November to represent Colorado at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention State-Based Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Awardee Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to collaborate and learn from the 12 other state collaboratives who received awards, as well as to learn some of the logistics of the grant award. Each state collaborative gave a short presentation on their current work, allowing states to learn from the experiences and challenges each group has had as they bring quality improvement science initiatives to hospitals across their states. 

In addition to encouraging states to “steal shamelessly and share seamlessly” with each other, the state collaboratives were also encouraged to consider health equity and disparities in the efforts they undertake in the future. Dr. Elizabeth Howell, Vice Chair of Research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, gave an inspiring key note address on quality of care and racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and child health. Her research has demonstrated shocking variation in severe maternal morbidity among hospitals in New York City, and that higher rates of severe maternal

morbidity in black and Hispanic women can be partially explained by delivering in hospitals

UPCOMING EVENTSThanks again to those who completed the recent SurveyMonkey regarding future meetings of the collaborative. Based on your feedback, we will host three collaborative meetings in 2018.

The first meeting will be March 8th from 9-12 PM at the COPIC Building, 7351 E. Lowry Blvd., Denver 80230. Please add to your calendars, agenda to

SOARSupporting & Optimizing VAginal

Birth for Low Risk MomsSOAR is the acroynm for the CDC grant project getting started. The aim is to reduce cesarean deliveries for women with NTSV pregnancies.

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that provide less safe care.

The Colorado representatives left the conference having made several important networking connections with leaders of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives from other states, and with important insight on the value of rapid response data and shared learning amongst the hospitals participating in each project. Most importantly, the cooperation and shared learning amongst the states will continue with monthly conferences call facilitated by the CDC State-Based PQC Project Officer and through an online collaborative gateway, CDC JOIN.

Meghan Donnelly, MDAssistant Professor, Maternal Fetal MedicineCo-Medical Director, Women’s Care Center and Birth CenterUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine

The CDC State-based Perinatal Quality Collaborative2017 PQC Kick-off Meeting

At the recent conference held in Atlanta, Dr. Torri Metz presented on the CPCQC Quality Project SOAR or Supporting and Optimizing VAginal Births for Low-Risk Moms. Also attending were Dr. Meghan Donnelly, Medical Director for SOAR and Shivani Mehta Bhatia, Maternal Child Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

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The Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative is grateful to the following hospitals for their financial support in 2017. Together we will make Colorado the best place to deliver babies!

Arkansas Valley Medical Center Avista Hospital

Baby and Company Valley View HospitalBoulder Community Hospital Wray Community District HospitalChildren’s Colorado Anschutz Medical Center Yampa Valley Medical CenterColorado Plains Medical CenterCommunity Hospital Grand JunctionEast Morgan County HospitalDelta County Memorial Hospital

Good Samaritan Medical CenterGunnison Valley Hospital Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical CenterLittleton Adventist HospitalLutheran Medical Center

Medical Center of the Rockies Montrose Memorial HospitalNorth Suburban Medical CenterParkview Medical CenterPlatte Valley Medical CenterPoudre Valley HospitalPresbyterian St. Luke’s Medical CenterRose Medical CenterSky Ridge Medical CenterSt. Anthony North Medical CenterSt. Anthony Summit Medical CenterSt. Francis Medical CenterSt. Joseph HospitalSt. Mary Corwin Hospital St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical CenterUniversity of Colorado HospitalVail Health HospitalYampa Valley Medical Center