CBO Grant Consultants client Baltimore Healthy Start (BHS) has been awarded a three-year $1 million grant from Merck for Mothers under their Safer Childbirth Cities Initiative. The Baltimore Safer Childbirth Cities project will:
Augment the State of Maryland’s Maternal Mortality Review with a Baltimore-focused Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) review process;
Implement a “Patients as Partners” initiative to bring the knowledge and experience of maternity patients to bear on hospital and health system clinical quality improvement processes;
Expand the scope and increase utilization of postpartum care services through co-locating and co-scheduling visits in pediatric clinics at 2-week, 4-week, 2-month, 6-month, and 12-month infant well-child visits; and
Implement a Maternal Health Monitoring Intervention of prenatal and postpartum home-based assessments for BHS clients with immediate medical referral if indicated.
Partners in the project include the Baltimore City Health Department, the Maryland Hospital Association, the Maryland State Medical Society, Total Health Care, Inc., and the Preeclampsia Foundation.
Peter Schafer of CBO Grant Consultants developed the concepts for the proposal with Lashelle Stewart and Maxine Reed-Vance of Baltimore Healthy Start, and Peter Schafer wrote the grant proposal.