
The Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative (KyPQC) and the Kentucky Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (KyMMM) Task Force hosted a joint Kentucky Symposium for Maternal and Infant Outcomes in September of 2024. The purpose of the Kentucky Symposium for Maternal and Infant Outcomes wass to provide cross-disciplinary educational content to support stakeholders and partners dedicated to improving the quality of care during pregnancy, delivery, and 12 months post-pregnancy. The target audience is perinatal medical care providers, social service providers, administrators, payers, quality managers, researchers, policymakers, community groups, and patients with lived experience. Agenda items will include the role of community health workers in perinatal care, state surveillance data from the Maternal Mortality Review Committee, health equity, persons with lived experiences, Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) program, outcomes from postpartum mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) screening initiatives, and more.
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Maternal mortality is a key indicator of a state’s health and has a long-term impact on health outcomes. To reduce mortality, Kentucky is promoting optimal health before, during, and after pregnancy.
This includes addressing healthy nutrition, chronic health conditions, substance use, health equity, social determinants of health, prenatal care, and early elective...
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Activity Details
- CreditAmounts:
- CME: 1.00
- CPHCE: 1.00
- ASWB ACE: 1.00
- CNE: 1.00
- CCHW: 1.00
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Type:
Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 20, 2028
- Cost: Free
Health equity is achieved when everyone can reach their full health potential, and no one is disadvantaged from this potential due to socially determined circumstances, constructs, or positions. Healthcare must examine its role in creating, perpetuating, and correcting systemic inequities and biases in the healthcare delivery system to achieve equitable outcomes and anti-racist...
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Activity Details
- CreditAmounts:
- CME: 0.75
- CPHCE: 0.75
- ASWB ACE: 0.75
- CNE: 0.75
- CCHW: 0.75
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Type:
Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 20, 2028
- Cost: Free
For more than 20 years, the American College of Physicians (ACP) has advocated for the need to address firearm-related injuries and deaths in the United States. In 2014, the ACP published a comprehensive set of recommendations. In 2015, it joined the American College of Surgeons, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Public Health Association, American...
Faculty
Activity Details
- CreditAmounts:
- CME: 0.75
- CPHCE: 0.75
- ASWB ACE: 0.75
- CNE: 0.75
- CCHW: 0.75
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Type:
Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 20, 2028
- Cost: Free
The KY HANDS Program supports families as they build healthy, safe environments for the optimal growth and development of children. The vision is that Every child is wanted and cared for in a stimulating and nurturing environment.
Faculty
Activity Details
- CreditAmounts:
- CME: 1.00
- CPHCE: 1.00
- ASWB ACE: 1.00
- CNE: 1.00
- CCHW: 1.00
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Type:
Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 20, 2028
- Cost: Free
Due to structural racism, disparate structural practices, and skewed big media messages, it is not widely disseminated how the opioid epidemic (overdose and treatment disparities) disproportionately impacts Black populations.
Faculty
Activity Details
- CreditAmounts:
- CME: 1.00
- CPHCE: 1.00
- ASWB ACE: 1.00
- CNE: 1.00
- CCHW: 1.00
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Type:
Video Webcast
- Expires: Jan 20, 2028
- Cost: Free