Journal article
BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION Steps Toward a High-Quality, High-Value Maternity Care System
Women's health issues, Vol.20(1), pp.S18-S49
01/01/2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.11.007
PMID: 20123180
Abstract
Childbirth Connection hosted a 90th Anniversary national policy symposium, Transforming Maternity Care: A High Value Proposition, on April 3, 2009, in Washington, DC. Over 100 leaders from across the range of stakeholder perspectives were actively engaged in the symposium work to improve the quality and value of U.S. maternity care through broad system improvement. A multi-disciplinary symposium steering committee guided the strategy from its inception and contributed to every phase of the project. The "Blueprint for Action: Steps Toward a High Quality, High Value Maternity Care System", issued by the Transforming Maternity Care Symposium Steering Committee, answers the fundamental question,
"Who needs to do what, to, for, and with whom to improve the quality of maternity care over the next five years?"
Five stakeholder workgroups collaborated to propose actionable strategies in 11 critical focus areas for moving expeditiously toward the realization of the long term "2020 Vision for a High Quality, High Value Maternity Care System", also published in this issue. Following the symposium these workgroup reports and recommendations were synthesized into the current blueprint. For each critical focus area, the "Blueprint for Action" presents a brief problem statement, a set of system goals for improvement in that area, and major recommendations with proposed action steps to achieve them. This process created a clear sightline to action that if enacted could improve the structure, process, experiences of care, and outcomes of the maternity care system in ways that when anchored in the culture can indeed transform maternity care.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION Steps Toward a High-Quality, High-Value Maternity Care System
- Creators
- Peter B. AngoodElizabeth Mitchell Armstrong - Princeton UniversityDiane Ashton - March Dimes, London, EnglandHelen BurstinMaureen P. CorrySuzanne F. Delbanco - Arrowsight Icn, Div Hlth Care, Mt Kisco, NY USABarbara Fildes - Dartmouth CollegeDaniel M. Fox - Milbank Memorial FundPaul A. Gluck - Univ Miami Miller, Natl Patient Safety Fdn, Miami, FL USASue Leavitt Gullo - Inst Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA USAJoanne HowesR. Rima JolivetDouglas W. Laube - University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthDonna LynneElliott Main - Obstet Qual Sutter Hlth, Calif Maternal Qual Care Collaborat, Sacramento, CA USAAnne Rossier Markus - George Washington UniversityLinda Mayberry - NYU, Coll Nursing, New York, NY 10003 USALynn V. Mitchell - Oklahoma Health Care Author, Oklahoma City, OK USADebra L. Ness - Tioga County Partnership for Community HealthRachel Nuzum - Commonwealth FundJeffrey D. Quinlan - Univ Hlth Sci, Uniformed Serv, Family Med, New York, NY USACarol SakalaAlina SalganicoffTransforming Maternity Care Symposium Steering Committee
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Women's health issues, Vol.20(1), pp.S18-S49
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.whi.2009.11.007
- PMID
- 20123180
- NLM abbreviation
- Womens Health Issues
- ISSN
- 1049-3867
- eISSN
- 1878-4321
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Family and Community Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984297442102771
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