CMQCC Involved in National Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality & Morbidity

June 24, 2015

From OBGYN News:  A national group that includes ob.gyns., nurse-midwives, anesthesiologists, and other providers has released a safety bundle with 13 steps that hospitals can use to prevent, recognize, and better manage obstetric hemorrhage.

Publication: Pregnancy-Related Cardiovascular Deaths in California: Beyond Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

May 18, 2015

Maternal mortality rates rose markedly from 2002 to 2006 in California, prompting an in-depth maternal mortality review in a state which comprises one twelfth of the U.S. birth cohort. Cardiovascular disease has emerged as the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S.

Cesarean Births Reduced at One Hospital, with CMQCC support

April 22, 2015

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, one of the largest and most respected facilities in Orange County, needed to move quickly.

A big insurer had warned that its maternity costs were too high and it might be cut from the plan’s network. The reason? Too many Cesarean sections.

How Childbirth Educators can share Preeclampsia Information with Expectant Parents

April 12, 2015

May is Preeclampsia Awareness Month and the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology highlighted some new research published by doctors and researchers at the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative that demonstrated that the majority of preeclampsia-related deaths could have been prevented.

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