Current Initiatives
Current LaPQC Initiatives
Through its initiatives, the LaPQC supports participating facilities in their quality improvement efforts related to health outcomes immediately before and after birth. We accomplish this primarily through comprehensive, equity- and patient-centered, evidence-based, quality improvement programming.
Current Initiatives
The LaPQC has four active programs and initiatives, each one addressing a different area of perinatal or neonatal health outcomes:
- The Gift, which seeks to improve maternal and infant outcomes related to breastfeeding and infant nutrition;
- Safe Births Initiative, which is the primary home for AIM bundle implementation and perinatal outcomes work;
- Improving Care for the Substance-Exposed Dyad, our initiative focused on outcomes related to dyads affected by substance & opioid use disorder; and
- Caregiver Perinatal Depression Screening in Pediatric Pilot, our work that seeks to understand screening & referral pathways for caregivers affected by depression.
All LaPQC initiatives have a few important things in common:
- An equity focus, baked in from the start. Comprehensive approaches to reducing disparities have been an important part of LaPQC work since the beginning, and it’s important for each initiative to address the unique disparities and health equity concerns in thoughtful and patient- and community-informed ways.
- Collaborative learning programming. The LaPQC team believes it’s just as important for participating improvement teams to learn from each other as it is to learn from state and national experts.
- A driver diagram and change package, grounded in evidence. All LaPQC initiatives share the same 4 core primary drivers – or areas of change we think will move this work forward: reliable clinical processes, respectful patient partnership, effective peer teamwork, engaged perinatal leadership. In each of these 4 areas, teams implement best practices to improve outcomes.
- Meaningful measurement strategy. It is hard to know if you are improving if you don’t measure, so the LaPQC team constructs a comprehensive measurement strategy for each initiative so teams can track how they are doing, look for health disparities, and track progress toward goals.