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 for implementing systems change to enhance perinatal care delivery.

The HBI's core goals are to reduce rates of low birthweight and preterm birth and to increase exclusive breastfeeding. Providing high-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.

Improved perinatal care also has a positive effect on the health and behaviors of women, children, and families. These benefits are magnified by the synergy of the collaborative approach linking community services to the healthcare 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 assisting participants to effect systems change by implementing specific prenatal evidence-based, best practice standards.

Throughout the program, participants use tools to make strategic, rapid changes to operational systems that address areas including perinatal depression, gestational diabetes, and nutrition screening.

For more details please refer to the fact sheet.