Goal 1.2 - Ensure the federal government serves as a model employer for maternal health care coverage by strengthening coverage, benefits, and services around maternal care across Office of Personnel Management (OPM) via the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (including the Indian Health Service), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and Department of Defense (DoD).
Goal 1.3 - Improve rural obstetric readiness at hospitals and Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities by developing guidelines and standards so facilities without obstetric units are still “obstetric ready,” expanding the Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) Program to enhance access to maternal and obstetric care in rural communities, and providing free readily accessible online obstetrical trainings to HRSA-funded health centers and free clinics to support the delivery of competent preconception, prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care.
Goal 1.7 - Improve quality of care provided to pregnant and postpartum women with or at risk for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy by disseminating self-measured blood pressure monitoring tools and resources for obstetrical providers, primary care professionals, and the pregnant and postpartum women they serve.
Goal 2.1 - Explore opportunities to advance equitable, high-quality maternity care provided by hospitals, including engaging with the public on possible revisions to the Conditions of Participation for hospitals receiving funding from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as proposing a new “Birthing-Friendly” hospital designation to publicly report those facilities with a demonstrated commitment to maternal health through participation in perinatal quality improvement programs and implementation of evidence-based practices.
Goal 2.3 - Empower AI/AN pregnant and postpartum women and educate providers by expanding the Hear HerTM campaign to include culturally relevant materials to raise awareness of urgent maternal warning signs and improve communication between patients and providers.
Goal 2.5 - Empower women with their own data, enabling more women to get automated access to their electronic prenatal, birth, and postpartum health records.Empower AI/AN pregnant and postpartum women and educate providers by expanding the Hear HerTM campaign to include culturally relevant materials to raise awareness of urgent maternal warning signs and improve communication between patients and providers.
Goal 2.14 - Work with Congress to ensure the President’s budget proposal on maternal health is fulfilled, so that states, cities, and counties can improve quality of care and prevent unnecessary deaths by enrolling every state in the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health program and facilitating Perinatal Quality Collaboratives operating at full capacity in every state.
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