This is a recording from the live 3rd Annual KyPQC Conference, dated October 20-21, 2021. If you claimed credit for this session at the live meeting, you should not claim credit for this module. 

Faculty

Needs Statement

To achieve prevention and reduce rates requires partnership and coordination at many levels. MMRCs alone cannot achieve reduction, but together with perinatal quality collaboratives and the tools and technical assistance of the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) program, we can achieve culture change and improved maternal outcomes.

Implement education and maternal care practices that address systemic racism to improve outcomes. 

Target Audience

Healthcare professionals interested in successful quality improvement initiatives that could be implemented in delivery hospitals.

Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the factors that contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health
2. Understand the concepts and goals of equality and equity in health care delivery
3. List quality improvement strategies to improve maternal outcomes and eliminate disparities/inequities

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

CME
This enduring material is designated for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IPE Competencies

• Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice
• Roles/ Responsibilities
• Interprofessional Communication
• Teams and Teamwork

CNE
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.50 nursing contact hours.

Faculty Disclosure

All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

Audra Meadows, MD, faculty for this educational event, is a consultant for the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement.All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated. No other speakers, planners, or content reviewers have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Content review confirmed that the content was developed in a fair, balanced manner free from commercial bias. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Acknowledgment

KyPQC is Supported by Cooperative Agreement number 2 NU17CE924971, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).