Uams Hosts Power Workshop for Perinatal Health on April 24


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"We're still grappling with not-great maternal outcomes," says the chief executive officer of the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

That's why the UAMS is teaming up with the Arkansas Perinatal Quality Collaborative to hold an all-day workshop April 24 in Little Rock that will focus on ways to reduce the rate of primary cesarean births in the state, which has one of the highest rates of such births in the nation at more than 50%, per the New York Times.

Speakers at the April 24 workshop will include Rebecca Hamm, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UAMS, and Debra Bingham, chief executive officer of the ARPQC, which "supports participating hospitals in implementing data-driven, evidence-based practices to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes, guided by quality improvement methods and implementation science," per a press release.

"This bundle has been fun because it focuses on those key pieces that we know really help improve a mom's success in having a vaginal delivery," says Dawn Brown, director of the ARPQC's high-risk pregnancy program.

Breakout sessions will include presentations on emergency simulations and post-birth signs, evidence-based labor induction, and intermittent arousal,

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