Outreach

Outreach Services

• Annual on-site quality of care visits to each affiliate which includeas time permits the review of:

1. Available perinatal data
2. The affiliate’s internal quality assurance program, policies, & procedures
3. Care provided by medical, nursing, & other health care practitioners
4. The appropriateness & timeliness of maternal & newborn referrals and transfers, as well as the outcomes of patients retained at the affiliate hospital who met the criteria for transfer to a higher level of care
5. Adverse perinatal events & outcomes such as fatalities, morbidity, nosocomial infections, and high-risk procedures
6. Pathology related to all deaths & significant surgical specimens
7. The effectiveness of any plans for correcting quality of care problems

• Review & identification of problems: review of data, adverse outcomes, transports and non-transports, and the affiliates internal QA/QI activities
• Solutions/recommendations and their effectiveness
• Outreach and education including identification of needs
• Attending level perinatal consultations
• Development, updating, and implementing affiliation agreements
• Patient transport