141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

5180.0
Policy & finance of obstetric and newborn care programs

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will analyze challenges and strategies utilized in scaling up programs, improving quality and continuity of care, and adoption of clinical practice guidelines.
Session Objectives: Explain how to forge and manage partnerships during scale up of large programs Discuss challenges hospitals confront in improving quality of care in the labor and delivery suite – including innovative incentives to encourage adoption of guidelines Identify new ways to standardize quality of emergency obstetric care Describe factors critical to improving continuity of essential care for women.
Moderator:
Amy O'Malley, RN, MSN
Organizers:
Kimberly Arcoleo, PhD, MPH and Lesley A. Cottrell, Ph.D.

12:30pm
Making the impossible, possible – highlights from the scale up of the emergency obstetric care program in India   
Himanshu Bhushan, Dr, Ajey Bhardwaj, Sadhana Desai, Dr, Prakash Bhatt, Dr and Dhawal Naik, Dr
     
12:50pm
Assessing the experience of Florida NICU centers participating in the ncabsi project   
Pamela C. Guevara, MPH and Linda A. Detman, PhD
     
  
1:10pm
Collaborative on innovations in managing obstetric emergencies   
Priya Agrawal, BMBCh, MA, MPH, DFSRH
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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