Are Your Hospital’s Website Images Safe-Sleep Friendly? Creating a safe sleep environment for an infant can be confusing to families, especially when they don’t hear consistent information from their peers or health providers. Moreover, pictures of infants sleeping in unsafe positions are all over the internet and social media platforms, which adds to the mixed messaging. Hospital websites can set a much-needed positive online precedent. Here, learn what you can do make sure your hospital images are safe sleep friendly.
A New Study Reveals a Breakthrough in Examining Rare Events Babies die at a higher rate in the U.S. than in many other countries, and disparities persist. In this article, find out about a new approach to examining data that can help maternal and child health practitioners interpret sparse data in real-time as programs and policies are tested, and then successes are spread and scaled.
Driving Statewide Improvement in Perinatal Care Across the nation, perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) are working to improve health outcomes for moms and babies by advancing evidence-informed clinical practices. Here, successful PQCs share advice on developing and sustaining an improvement collaborative, including how to achieve buy-in and ideas for diversifying funding.
QI Tips: Developing a Successful Measurement Strategy Measurement is critical to quality improvement. It's what helps your team determine if your changes are, in fact, leading to improvement. Looking for support in developing your measures? This article identifies three questions you can use to check your measurement strategy. (Hint: we include a measurement worksheet to support your efforts).
Fisher Price recalled the Rock 'n Play Sleeper. Thanks to all those in our network for helping spread the word! Here, our leadership shares why unsafe infant products shouldn't be on the market.
Featured Stories:Three mothers share how health systems have improved over the past two decades
Christy Blakely, Elizabeth Aquino and Tara Bristol Rouse are three passionate mothers advocating to improve children’s health systems. Read their stories and you'll see that change is possible, thanks to the power of family partners. Find out how:
Projects like the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems CoIIN are prioritizing family advocacy so that more parents and caregivers are empowered to access the services and support they need.
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Free social media graphics: In recognition of National Minority Health Month,we’ve put together a small collection of social media graphics about some of the health concerns facing minority families. Download the graphics, share on your social accounts this week, and tag @NICHQ so we can amplify your reach.
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