Emerging Practice

Healthy Mom, Healthy Family: Incorporating Interconception Care Into Well-Child Visits

State/Jurisdiction: Ohio
Setting: Clinical
Population: Families & Caregivers Women & Maternal
Topic Area: Primary & Preventative Care
NPMs: NPM 1: Well-Woman Visit NPM 3: Risk-Appropriate Perinatal Care NPM 14.1: Smoking – Pregnancy

Healthy Mom, Healthy Family: Incorporating Interconception Care Into Well-Child Visits (HMHF) is a quality improvement (QI) project designed to impact maternal and infant health based on the national network model: Interventions to Minimize Preterm and Low Birth Weight through Continuous Improvement Techniques (IMPLICIT), developed by the Family Education Consortium Collaborative and the March of Dimes. HMHF aims to promote interconception care to identify maternal risk through assessments during well-child visits (WCVs) to help moms improve interconception health. HMHF addresses barriers to maternal health care by educating and training pediatricians and family health providers to screen mothers during the interconception period in four intervention critical health behavior areas during well-child visits at 0-18 months and to provide brief counseling and referrals. The four topic areas to be addressed with screenings and possible intervention include: • depression and anxiety • tobacco use • family planning • multivitamin use


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Implementation Handout
HMHF PCP Toolkit
HMHF Workflow Algorithm

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