Enhance Postpartum Services to Improve Maternal Health: High Impact Practice Set (HIPS) for Outpatient Settings Webinar

This webinar presents high impact practices for enhancing postpartum services in the outpatient sexual and reproductive health setting. This webinar is part of a series on High Impact Practice Sets (HIPS) that address leading causes of maternal mortality and racial disparities in maternal health. These practices were adapted from Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) Patient Safety Bundles by the RHNTC in collaboration with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Speakers will discuss the impact of postpartum services on maternal health and racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality; high impact practices for enhancing postpartum services; and new RHNTC resources to strengthen postpartum services.

Time: 1 hour

Speakers:

• Meg Sheahan, MSN, CNM, MPH, Senior Clinical Consultant, RHNTC
• Susan Kendig, MSN, JD, WHNP, Women’s Health Integration Specialist, SSM Health Maternal Services, St. Louis, MO
• Jessica Eslinger, Patient Advocate

Learning Objectives: 
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain how postpartum services improve maternal health and impact racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality
• Describe high impact practices that sexual and reproductive health providers can implement to enhance postpartum services for improved health outcomes
• Identify two resources that sexual and reproductive health providers can use to enhance postpartum services

This activity is pending approval to award contact hours by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., an approved provider with distinction of nursing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.