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Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative (MI PQC)
Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative (MI PQC)
MDHHS launched the Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative (MI PQC) in 2015; over the past several years, all 50 states along with the District of Columbia have established State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives. The State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives, including the MI PQC, are part of the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC).
Contact Michigan's Perinatal Quality Collaborative Coordinator to learn more.
MI PQC Updates
Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative Advancing Healthy Births: Request for Proposals - 2024
To facilitate alignment with the Advancing Healthy Births plan and encourage collaborative efforts with the MI PQC and individual Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (RPQCs), funding was awarded to community-based organizations and local programs, whose efforts focus on addressing disparate birthing outcomes and advancing healthy births. The Advancing Healthy Births: Request for Proposals was led by the RPQCs and made possible by one-time funding received through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Funded organizations and projects are listed in this document.
MI PQC Efforts and Achievements
Advancing Equity
♦ Actively addressing health inequities, social determinants of health and disparate outcomes.
♦ Partnering with Maternal Child Health Epidemiology and Infant Health Epidemiology to collect, analyze, and share data for equitable outcomes.
Implementing and expanding care for families affected by Perinatal Substance Use Disorder (PSUD)
♦ Increased screening for mental and behavioral health concerns at prenatal and family planning clinics through utilization of an electronic screening tool (such as High Touch, High Tech).
♦ Increased accessibility of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for pregnant & postpartum people, as well as coordination of prenatal care for pregnant people receiving MAT.
♦ Establish rooming-in policies and procedures for families with babies born substance-exposed at participating birthing hospitals.
Expanding and improving access to respectful, quality care throughout the pregnancy and postpartum period
♦ Promoting and expanding CenteringPregnancy© as an evidence-based model of prenatal care.
♦ Increased referrals and enrollment to evidence-based home visiting programs through various interventions, including enhanced social media posts, warm hand-offs from trusted providers, referral hubs, etc.
♦ Bolstering virtual birthing and breastfeeding education and support.
♦ Building a diverse doula workforce through training, mentorship and continued education opportunities.
Download the Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative Information Sheet to learn more about improving birth outcomes for Michigan families.
Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (RPQCs)
Recognizing the diverse geographic and demographic nature of the state, Michigan approached its structure of the PQC in a unique manner. The Michigan PQC (MI PQC) is comprised of nine (9) Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (RPQC), representing the state’s ten (10) Prosperity Regions (see map above), with all nine established by 2019.
As an individual’s health outcomes are attributed to clinical care, as well as environment, socioeconomic factors, and health-related behaviors, the RPQCs utilize both community and clinical approaches by bringing together health care professionals, community partners, families, faith-based organizations, Great Start Collaboratives, home visiting agencies, and others in a unified, collaborative effort.
RPQC Approach:
- Convene perinatal stakeholders and partners in regular meetings to address their respective region’s largest concerns with individualized attention.
- Improve birth outcomes for birthing people, infants and families through data-driven quality improvement efforts that are tailored to the strengths and challenges of their respective region.
- Authentically engage families and communities; garnering and utilizing the advisement of families statewide and within specific RPQC catchment areas.
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Region 1
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Region 2 & 3
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Region 4
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Region 5
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Region 6
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Region 7
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Region 8
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Region 9
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Region 10
For more information on the RPQC's,
please contact:
Emily Goerge, MPH, MSN, RN
Perinatal Nurse Coordinator
GoergeE@Michigan.gov