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New Hampshire Perinatal Quality Collaborative

improving maternal and infant health outcomes in New Hampshire

Mission

The Maternal Health Task Force aims to build a patient-centered, data-driven, evidence-based, sustainable infrastructure to assure that every pregnant and postpartum patient, and infant receives high quality, safe care. We support New Hampshire birthing communities with an integrated and collaborative approach to improve health outcomes before, during, and after birth for all. We honor each person’s unique and transformative experience of childbirth.

Vision

All birthing patients feel emotionally, psychologically, and physically safe as they experience caring, respectful, high-quality care before, during and after birth.

Who We Are

The NHPQC represents a statewide network working collaboratively towards improving maternal and infant health care and outcomes in our state.

Our leadership structure includes a Core Co-design team (CCDT). The CCDT represents a broad range of stakeholders who met regularly to craft the NHPQC strategic plan.  They include OBGYNS, doulas, a quality improvement specialist, community health workers, and parenting community members. They will continue to be the central leadership guiding the strategic direction of the NHPQC.

This graphic represents the broad stakeholders participating in our initiative.

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The concentric circles within the state of NH represent the diverse group of stakeholders in each geographic region who are NHPQC members.

Objectives:

  1. All NH birthing communities communicate and convene regularly with active participation by all impacted stakeholders/partners to address community perinatal priorities. This includes pregnant and postpartum patients, community organizations, hospitals and all other participants
  2. All improvements to advance perinatal outcomes are community-driven, integrated and collaborative, patient-centered, and encompassing all voices at either the organization, community, system, or policy level
  3. All communities build and sustain processes, systems, and policies to support improved outcomes for all birthing patients
  4. Systems and policies are designed to support all participants’ wellbeing

Objectives:

  1. Provide education, tools, and resources for providers, organizations and communities to increase capacity for improving good communication, and respectful, patient centered, psychologically safe, trauma-informed care for all
  2. Support systems change to promote best practices and implementation of evidence-based care

Objectives:

  1. Pregnant and postpartum patients and family members are provided with accurate and transparent information about best practices for high quality, safe, comprehensive reproductive health care. This includes miscarriage, bereavement, reproductive autonomy, and other pivotal decision points along the perinatal journey
  2. Providers and systems understand, and are able to, engage in effective communication, collaborative care, coproduction, and shared decision making with respect and support for personal choice
  3. Pregnant and postpartum patients feel supported in their autonomy to make informed decisions about all their individual choices and care
  4. Providers and systems acknowledge and address power dynamics between providers and pregnant and postpartum patients and create authentic partnerships

Objectives:

  1. Co-create a system for collecting NH data related to perinatal care and outcomes within 12 months
  2. Co-develop shared metrics and evaluate progress annually
  3. Collectively review current data to interpret meaning, identify trends and targeted areas for improvement, and share data with all partners in communities
  4. Co-design and implement improvement projects grounded in these findings to improve perinatal care and quality for all
  5. Continuously share evidence-informed practices to improve safety and quality for all

Our Goals

Click each goal to view more information and NHPQC objectives in each category. 

What is NHPQC?

Learn more about NHPQC’s community-based collaborative approach to improving maternal and infant healthcare in New Hamphire. 

A Statement of Gratitude

We deeply appreciate the time, energy and expertise of our members across the state who have participated in launching and implementing the NHPQC. None of this work would be possible without the deep commitment of this group.

The PQC leadership team seeks to facilitate the work of this group to collaboratively improve perinatal health in the state while being responsive to funder’s requirements. 

Our Partners

We couldn’t do our work without federal, state and local partnerships with these dedicated organizations.

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NHPQC brings together OBGYNS, doulas, a quality improvement specialist, community health workers, and parenting community members to guide strategic direction and goals.

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