The Population Health team was established in 2015 to address the needs of family and child health through partnerships with and funding from state agencies.
Hear from Gillian Gonzaba, NNP-BC, about the new TCHMB LASSO-TX statewide quality improvement initiative focused on improving breastfeeding and the use of a mother’s own milk for Texas infants, along with the promotion of safe infant sleep best practices.
At the Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies (TCHMB), we are proud to use September (Women in Medicine Month) to recognize the outstanding women leaders driving our quality improvement (QI) efforts through their expertise, vision, and commitment to our Executive Committee and other workgroups and our internal staff. These women provide invaluable expertise and vision to drive our mission forward.
Like so many organizations, the Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies has been engaged in a conversation about how to stay true to our commitments while adapting to the realities of a health care system that has had to shift priorities in ways we couldn’t have anticipated even two months ago.
The TCHMB-produced video, “MEWS: A Simple Alogorithm for Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity, has been awarded second place in the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care’s National Improvement Video Challenge.
To learn more about which medications are covered, healthcare providers can access the HTW specific formulary at txvendordrug.com/resources/downloads.
The goal of the initiative, and its associated learning collaborative, is to increase the number of very low birth weight infants that will receive human milk, preferably their mother’s milk, as their primary source of nutrition to assist with their immune and gastrointestinal tract development. More specifically, this project is focused on helping participating hospitals identify and overcome barriers to establishing maternal milk supply and barriers to supporting breastfeeding in the NICU. Initiative to Improve Infant Nutrition and Care in NICUs
The Obstetrics Subcommittee continued working on its Induction of Labor (IOL) Quality Improvement (QI) project, to reduce failed indicated induction of labor and ultimately reduce the primary cesarean delivery rate in Texas.
