RI MomsPRN Quality Improvement Initiative

  • 16 Dec 2024

Practices participating in the RI MomsPRN Quality Improvement Initiative convened in November for their midpoint learning collaborative meeting. At the midpoint meeting, practices shared progress made on their practice-identified quality improvement projects related to perinatal behavioral health including:  

  • VICTA: Partnering with community resources to provide their perinatal patients with the support services they need. VICTA also shared the opening of a new Harm Reduction Center in December.  
  • Tri-County: Successes and challenges on screening for safety and intimate partner violence with their perinatal patients. In addition, Tri-County is working on improving their screening rates of undocumented patients and handing off all positive screens to behavioral health. 
  • Brown Health OBGYN: Increasing staff and provider competency and comfort in handling patients with behavioral health concerns. They conducted a survey among medical staff, providers, and medical assistants to identify areas of strength and need with the results to inform their ongoing training programs. Brown Health OBGYN is also working on improving their screening rates in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters of pregnancy for Depression and Anxiety.  
  • The Family Care Center: Increasing support services to postpartum parents by partnering with other community resources. In addition, the Family Care Center is working on improving their depression, anxiety and substance use disorder screenings in the 1st and 3rd trimesters and postpartum. 

Thank you to RIDOH and EOHHS for your continued support and funding for this opportunity.