The Mother & Baby Substance Exposure Initiative, part of the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Expansion Project is a hospital and community-based effort to improve outcomes for mothers and newborns impacted by substance exposure, with a specific focus on Opioid Use Disorder.
The Mother & Baby Substance Exposure Initiative will emphasize care that maintains the mother-baby dyad throughout the hospital stay and will also address treatment and prevention of substance exposure during and after pregnancy.
Key components of this initiative include:
- An interactive online toolkit for maternal and newborn care providers on perinatal substance exposure developed by a multidisciplinary task force of experts from across California
- Expert lead quality improvement collaboratives to support implementation of the toolkit best practices, for hospitals in selected counties across Northern, Central and Southern California
- Tools and resources for collecting and reporting data to support quality improvement
- Mobilization and support for public and private partners across the state
- A network of other states that have implemented the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health National Collaborative Opioid Bundle
Funding Acknowledgement
CMQCC and CPQCC jointly published this toolkit in collaboration with Health Management Associates (HMA). The Mother & Baby Substance Exposure Initiative is funded by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) as part of a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) State Opioid Response grant.