Centering Equity and Fostering Stakeholder Collaboration and Trust-Pillars of the Maternal Health Innovation Program in Maryland.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe two main pillars of the Maryland Maternal Health Innovation Program (MDMOM): (1) centering equity and (2) fostering broad stakeholder collaboration and trust.

Methods

We summarized MDMOM's key activities and used severe maternal morbidity (SMM) surveillance and program monitoring data to quantify MDMOM's work on the two pillars. We developed measures of hospital engagement with MDMOM (participation in quality improvement [QI] activities, participation in check-in meetings, staff involvement) and with other partners (participation in QI activities, representation in state-level groups). We examined Bonferroni-adjusted correlations between these hospital engagement measures and with key hospital characteristics: level of maternity care, annual delivery vo

SUBMITTER: Creanga AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11249133 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature