National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

CDC and the March of Dimes launched the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC) to support state-based perinatal quality collaboratives in making measureable improvements in statewide health care and health outcomes for mothers and babies. In 2017, CDC awarded the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) to serve as the coordinating center for the NNPQC. NICHQ will coordinate NNPQC activities, including providing support, mentoring, and resources for perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) to:

• Strengthen PQC leadership
• Identify and disseminate best practices for establishing and sustaining PQCs, and
• Identify and develop tools, training, and resources necessary to foster the sharing of best practices to support a sustainable PQC infrastructure.

NNPQC Executive Committee

NNPQC executive committee members include staff from CDC, March of Dimes, NICHQ, state-based PQCs across the country, and other organizations. Committee members include: Scott Berns, MD, MPH, FAAP | Peter Bernstein, MD | Ann E.B. Borders, MD, MPH, MSc | William Callahan, MD, MPH | Charlene Collier, MD, MPH, MHS | Evelyn Delgado | Edward Donovan, MD | Kelly Ernst, MPH | Marybeth Fry, M.Ed | Jeffrey B. Gould, MD, MPH | Munish Gupta, MD, MMSc | Zsakeba Henderson, MD | Paul Jarris, MD, MBA | Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH | Carole Lannon, MD, MPH | Karyn Lee | Elliott Main, MD | Martin McCaffrey, MD, CAPT USN (Ret) | Susan Miller | Barbara Murphy, RN, MSN | Christine Olson MD, MPH | Tara Bristol Rouse, MA | Latoshia Rouse | William Sappenfield, MD | Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN | Danielle Suchdev, MPH | Lelis Vernon |

NNPQC Launch

In November 2016, national experts and representatives from 48 states and over 20 private and federal partner organizations gathered in Fort Worth, Texas for the first-ever meeting of the NNPQC. Over 170 participants networked and shared best practices to improve outcomes for mothers and babies that can be implemented in their states.

Online Community

Sign in to the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Online Community. The goal of this online community is to provide opportunities for the sharing of best practices and lessons learned in developing value based collaboratives, and above all, to create a national learning network that will support the needs of individual state collaboratives going forward.