Redesigning systems of postnatal care to better enable all families to thrive.
We’re taking a deeper look into the mother and baby’s recovery process.
To be safe and well, birthing mothers need to be listened to, respected, and experience timely, risk-appropriate postnatal health care. However, care can be inequitable and undermine the people and outcomes it seeks to support. This project is about identifying strengths and opportunities to re-engineer postnatal care, to transform process and outcomes for families and those serving them.
Precision Clinical Care
Thousands of maternal and infant data points are recorded in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) as part of routine care during the postnatal unit stay; however, these data are not yet leveraged for risk stratification, either for clinical assignments or discharge planning. In this domain, we will build on our experience with analytics and risk stratification to integrate discrete data to guide precision clinical care.
Care Transition from Hospital to Home
In recognition of the urgent need for improved postpartum transitions of care, national medical organizations are calling for innovation, practice, and culture change. In prior research, PIs Tully and Stuebe have documented widespread dissatisfaction with the transition process in postnatal care and disjointed post-discharge care around severe maternal morbidity. To support families in preparing for and navigating trade-offs, it can be helpful to consider the needs of the mother and infant in relation to each other as a mutually-regulating dyad, for implementation of such integrated care and health service transitions.
“What would it look like for mothers to not only survive pregnancy, but to thrive?”
— Joia Crear-Perry, M.D.
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