News & Events

CMQCC efforts to reduce primary cesarean in the New York Times

Jan 19, 2016
What’s likely to be the biggest influence on whether you will have a C-section?

CMQCC involved in Safety Action Series

Nov 25, 2015
CMQCC works with many safety and quality organizations which support and promote education in maternal health.

NAMD/AMCHP Issue Brief on Low Risk Primary Cesarean Births & Medicaid

Jul 12, 2015
This issue brief, developed by the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) in partnership with the Association of Maternal...

CMQCC Involved in National Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality & Morbidity

Jun 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...

Cesarean Births Reduced at One Hospital, with CMQCC support

Apr 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...

How Childbirth Educators can share Preeclampsia Information with Expectant Parents

Apr 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...