Changing Birth Outcomes in Washington State
September 13, 2012
With support from RWJF, the infant mortality rate in rural Yakima County fell dramatically, says Gail Weaver, vice president for Continuum of Care at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital.
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Healthier Moms, Stronger Babies
May 14, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Louisiana is also the first state in the country to modify the birth certificate to allow for easier, real-time collection of birth outcome data on every premature baby delivered. The information we need to monitor for continuous improvement is now ...
U.S. Lags Behind 130 Other Nations in Preterm Birth Rate
May 2, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Preterm babies are born at a higher rate in the US than in 130 other countries, including many poorer nations, according to a report released today, Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth, published by the March of Dimes and almost ...
Association Between Hospital Recognition for Nursing Excellence and Outcomes of Very Low Birth Weight Infants
April 25, 2012 | Journal Article
This study measured the relationship between VLBW infants and hospital recognition for nursing excellence (RNE), and shows RNE hospitals have significantly lower risk-adjusted rates for VLBW infants compared to non RNE hospitals.
Healthy Babies: HHS Adds an Initiative to Help Reduce Preterm Births
February 9, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Healthy Babies is the focus of the annual President’s Challenge of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and this week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) put funding behind the issue as well, announcing the S ...
Shining a Light on Premature Births
November 18, 2011 | New Public Health Post
One million babies worldwide died this year because they were born too soon, according to the March of Dimes. The Empire State Building towers were lit in purple last night in honor of the first-ever World Prematurity Day. This day is a call to rais ...
HRSA's Mary Wakefield on Healthy Baby Efforts: A NewPublicHealth Q&A
October 26, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The annual Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO) President’s Challenge will focus on infant mortality and healthy babies this year. ASTHO’s Healthy Babies Project will support state health officials and their staff in improvin ...
Kane Kares: Nurses Who Make House Calls
October 27, 2009 | Story/Video
Nurse-Family Partnership programs such as Kane Kares help change the lives of vulnerable first-time mothers and their babies through ongoing home visits from registered nurses.
Mortality Among Very Low-Birthweight Infants in Hospitals Serving Minority Populations
November 30, 2005 | Journal Article
Minority-serving hospitals may provide lower quality of care to VLBW infants compared with other hospitals. Because VLBW black infants are disproportionately treated by minority-serving hospitals.
Follow-Up Study Shows Positive Effects for Teens Who, as Infants with Somewhat Low Birthweights, Participated in an Early Intervention Program
August 17, 2007 | Program Results Report
Between 2001 and 2005, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and their colleagues at Teachers College Columbia University conducted a follow-up study of adolescents who, as babies, had participated in the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), an early intervention program for low-birthweight, premature infants funded by the Robert Wood Joh...