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Subject: Idaho Perinatal Quality Collaborative News: May 2024
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Idaho Perinatal Quality
Collaborative News
The Maternal and Child Health Program of the Idaho
Department of Health and Welfare and Comagine Healthhave partnered to establish Idaho’s Perinatal Quality
Collaborative (IDPQC). IDPQC brings together clinicalproviders, public health leaders, payers and communitybased organizations to improve outcomes for pregnantpeople and babies.

May 2024
May Is Preeclampsia
Awareness Month
Preeclampsia is a serious pregnancy
complication, and rates are on the rise in theU.S. It is important to be aware of thesymptoms of preeclampsia: severe
headache, swelling in the hands and face,visual issues, nausea and vomiting, stomach
or abdomen pain, sudden weight gain and/or
shortness of breath.
Preeclampsia can occur in any pregnancy and up to six weeks postpartum(http://www.stillatrisk.org). Learn more at preeclampsia.org.

May is Maternal Mental Health Month
The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline provides 24/7, free, confidential support,resources and referrals to any pregnant and postpartum mothers facing mental healthchallenges and their loved ones. The service is available via phone and text in Englishand Spanish.
You can help promote the hotline by ordering free Maternal Mental Health Hotline magnets(English and Spanish) and notebooks to distribute to maternal health providers and new andexpecting mothers. Please contact idahomch@dhw.idaho.gov to place your order. Limited
quantities available.
Additionally, OASH Office on Women’s Health has a new postpartum depression campaign
toolkit if organizations are interested: Talking PPD: Campaign Toolkit | Office on Women's
Health (womenshealth.gov).

Improving Joy in Work: an Institute for Healthcare
Improvement (IHI) Framework
Health care professionals face mounting pressures, leading to burnout and high staff turnoverrates. Burnout and a lack of joy not only impact individual staff engagement and satisfaction,
but also patient experience, quality of care, patient safety and organizational performance.
IHI has produced a white paper that outlines a systemwide approach to improving joy inhealth care work by analyzing efforts in other sectors and applying the IHI framework.
Key topics include:
The importance of joy in work (the “why”).
Four steps leaders can take to improve joy in work (the “how”).
The IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work: nine critical components of a system forensuring a joyful, engaged workforce (the “what”).
Key change ideas for improving joy in work, along with examples from organizations
that helped test them.
Measurement and assessment tools for gauging efforts to improve joy in work.
Download the free white paper here: IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work.

Webinar: Addressing
Hypertension Complications inthe Postpartum Period
A recording of the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal
Health’s (AIM) Technical Assistance Presentation Webinar
entitled Addressing Hypertension Complications in thePostpartum Period: Lessons from Implementation
Science with Dr. Kelly Gibson and Dr. Elliott Main is available
on the AIM Vimeo Channel here.

Webinar: Reducing Perinatal Inequities throughBlack Feminism and Radical Imagination
Join Dr. Lauren Arrington as she delves into the shortcomings of traditional racial equity
quality improvement initiatives. This interactive webinar will explore the benefits of applying aBlack Feminist and Radical Imagination lens to perinatal care. Participants will reflect on aperinatal health inequity they want to address and develop a “possibility question” and one
change idea to apply to their work as community organizers, birth workers, advocates,educators or researchers.

Register here

Previous Newsletters
Due to a syncing error, some contacts may not have received the April IDPQC Newsletter. If
you didn’t receive the April edition, or would like to read it again, you can find a link on theNews and Events section of the IDPQC website.

Follow Us
Follow the IDPQC Activity Summary Basecamp Page to learn more about the development
process of the PQC here. For more information about the IDPQC, visit idahopqc.org.

This project was supported by CFDA 93.994 from the Health Resources and Services
Administration. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily
represent the official views of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare or the HealthResources and Services Administration.

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