NH AIM/ERASE Maternal Mortality Webinar Series - Creating a Community-wide Approach to Perinatal Mental Health

Thursday, March 13, 2025, 12:00 PM - Monday, March 13, 2028, 1:00 PM

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (1.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

This session will offer two examples of creating a community-wide approach to perinatal mental health. Our AIM implementation team and the NHPQC will briefly share administrative updates, details from the Perinatal Mental Health Conditions (PMHC) Patient Safety Bundle, and relevant data. We will then hear from NH Dept of Health and Human Service's Home Visiting Program Manager Paula Gyurcsan, M.Ed and Mid-State Health Family Practice Provider Cecilia Disney, MD who will share learnings from their perinatal home visiting work. The speakers will walk through the design and implementation of their community initiatives before opening up a Q&A session with attendees.

Presenters

Paula Gyurcsan, MEd
Home Visiting Program Administrator, NH DHHS

Cecilia Disney, MD
Family Practitioner at Mid-State Health

Julie Bosak, DrPH
CNM, MSN, Director of NNEPQIN and NHPQC

1. Describe key reasons for incorporating home visiting work into postpartum care.
2. Identify one new approach to offering mental health support in the postpartum period that you can implement in your own professional practice.

In support of improving patient care, Dartmouth Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

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Bibliographic Material

• Attanasio LB, Ranchoff BL, Cooper MI, Geissler KH. Postpartum Visit Attendance in the United States: A Systematic Review. Womens Health Issues. 2022;32(4):369-375. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2022.02.002

  
  

• Gupta A, Pajai S, Gupta A, et al. In the Shadows of Motherhood: A Comprehensive Review of Postpartum Depression Screening and Intervention Practices. Cureus. 2024;16(2):e54245. Published 2024 Feb 15. doi:10.7759/cureus.54245

  
  

• Optimizing Postpartum Care. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Updated May 2018. Accessed March 13, 2025. https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2018/05/optimizing-postpartum-care

  
  

• Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data From Maternal Mortality Review Committees in 36 U.S. States, 2017-2019. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Updated May 28, 2024. Accessed March 13, 2025. https://www.cdc.gov/maternal-mortality/php/data-research/mmrc-2017-2019.html

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