by Eden Desta | Nov 15, 2020 | Epidemiology & Evaluation, Maternal & Infant Health, Pulse Newsletters
Kristina Wint, AMCHP Program Manager, Women & Infant Health Early this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the release of 2018 data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). Developed in 1987, the system aims...
by Eden Desta | Jun 29, 2020 | Maternal & Infant Health, News Releases
Organization to Receive Funding from Grantmaking Collaborative to Administer Community of Practice The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) has announced the development and implementation of a Community of Practice in support of the Safer...
by Eden Desta | Jun 4, 2020 | Maternal & Infant Health, Mental Health & SUD, News Releases
Under a new recommendation from the Women’s Preventive Services Initiative (WPSI), all adolescent and adult women age 13 and older should be screened for anxiety. The new recommendation, which includes women who are pregnant or postpartum, was published June 9 in the...
by Eden Desta | Jun 4, 2020 | Government Affairs, Maternal & Infant Health, News Releases
Seema Verma, Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue S.W. Washington, DC 20201 Via electronic submission: ruralmaternalrfi@cms.hhs.gov RE: Request for Information (RFI) Regarding...
by Eden Desta | Feb 15, 2020 | Maternal & Infant Health, Pulse Newsletters
Bejanchong Foretia, et al AMCHP Program Analyst, Women’s & Infant Health Maternal mortality review is a standard and comprehensive system that primarily operates at the state level to identify, review, and analyze maternal deaths, disseminate...
by Eden Desta | Jun 15, 2019 | Equity & Anti-Racism, Maternal & Infant Health, Pulse Newsletters
MCH Teams Go Home Changed by Health Equity Experience Kristina Wint, et al. Program Manager, Women’s Health The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs When I recently joined a meeting of the Infant Mortality Collaborative Improvement and Innovation...