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Lynette Biery, PA-C, MSc
Ninah Sasy, MSA
May 10, 2019

2. Session Overview 10 minutes 10 minutes 5 minutes
Key Milestones for Year 1: 2019
Small Group Discussion
Overview of the Improvement Plan
Focus on Equity
Call to Action
10 minutes
25 minutes

3. Zero preventable deaths Zero health disparities
Vision
Zero preventable deaths
Zero health disparities
Zero Preventable Deaths, Zero Health Disparities
We must bridge the gap between public health and private clinical practice to ensure that mothers and infants receive the care needed to improve health outcomes and prevent deaths
Maternal and infant health professionals must work together to ensure families are receiving the care needed to prevent deaths

4. Key Objectives Explicitly address inequities
Align public and private sector work
Integrate interventions across the maternal infant dyad

5. Strategic Focus Areas Reducing disparities
Addressing the primary causes of preventable maternal deaths
Reducing disparities: Achieve zero disparities by utilizing a health equity lens to acknowledge and address health disparities and implement tailored interventions
Addressing the primary causes of preventable maternal deaths: Achieve zero preventable maternal deaths by addressing the primary causes of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity by improving maternal health, equipping providers with the resources needed to adequately prevent and treat obstetric emergencies, improving birth spacing, and decreasing the rate of primary C-section
Addressing the primary causes of preventable infant deaths: Achieve zero preventable infant deaths by addressing the primary causes of infant mortality by reducing the rate of preterm births and low birth weight and reducing the number of sleep-related deaths and disparities
Addressing the primary causes of preventable infant deaths

6. Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives: Implementation
Together, Saving Lives
Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives: Implementation
RPQCs implement a quality improvement project utilizing the Population Health Model; convene diverse regional stakeholders; and authentically engage families.
Internal Alignment
Population Health and Medicaid programs align their work with the population health model, other program areas, and the RPQCs..
External Alignment
Community partners that provide services to moms and babies align their work with the Improvement Plan.
Internal Alignment Bureau of Family Health Services
MDHHS Program Areas
Medicaid
Title V
Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Seven RPQCs representing eight of Michigan’s prosperity regions
External Implementation Local health depts.
FQHCs
Home visiting programs
Maternal infant health care providers
Faith-baed organizations

7. Improvement Plan Timeline
Key dates in 2019
Maternal Infant Health Summit
Data Meetings
Ongoing alignment and implementation
May 30, 2019
August-September
March 2019
June 2019
Ongoing
Tee up town hall meetings
Town Hall Meetings
Expansion of Ambassador Network
MIHEC Meeting Detroit, Michigan

8. 2019 Maternal Infant Health Summit
More than 500 attendees came together for the second annual Maternal Infant Health Summit
Attendees learned about best practices and discussed the role of racism and unjust treatment in maternal and infant mortality
Governor Whitmer unveiled the written Improvement Plan LD

9. Focus on Equity

10. Call to Action for Health Equity
Four action steps starting in Year 1 and forward:
Future years
2019
Data-informed interventions
Addressing systemic inequities
Inclusive decision- making
Implicit Bias and Social Justice Trainings, Work Groups

11. Ambassador Network

12. Small Group Discussion

13. Call to Action What you can do 01 02 03 04 Sign up for the newsletter
Join the Ambassador Network 03
Attend the MIHEC
At Focus: Hope in Detroit, Michigan
May 30, 2019
August/ September 04
Attend MIHEIP Town Hall Meeting(s)