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Q3 2026 Program Updates & Insights Brief

CPCQC Q3 2026 Program Updates & Insights Brief

Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative

Reporting Period: July 2026 – September 2026

Executive Summary

This quarterly briefing provides an in-depth breakdown of CPCQC’s active quality improvement initiatives, taskforce contributions, infrastructure developments, and seven-month clinical data metrics across Colorado hospitals and community health settings.

1. Initiative Progress & Milestones

SPARK (Supporting Postpartum Access, Recovery and Knowledge)

  • IPV Clinical Training: CPCQC launched its Building Safety: Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in the Perinatal Period training with participating SPARK hospital teams. The curriculum equips labor and delivery teams with tools for safe documentation, trauma-informed communication, mandatory reporting, patient-led responses, and safety planning.
  • Companion Toolkit: A companion Perinatal IPV Toolkit launches in October 2026 to support long-term hospital implementation.

SOAR (Supporting Vaginal Delivery for Low-Risk Mothers)

  • Labor Support Workshops: Completed three of six planned 2026 hands-on workshops across UCHealth Longs Peak, Southwest Health, Vail Health, and Advent Health Parker.
  • Upcoming Sessions: Fall workshops are scheduled for Gunnison Valley (Sept 25) and as an AWHONN Pre-Conference Workshop (Oct 1).

NEST (Newborn Evidence-based Sleep Teaching)

  • Dyadic Education Curriculum: Development is underway on a dyadic curriculum centered on caregiver mental health, infant feeding, and discharge readiness in partnership with Momentum Lactation.
  • ISSP Partnership: Continuing collaboration with the Infant Safe Sleep Partnership to produce a non-stigmatizing family conversation guide.

Turning the Tide

  • Educational Suite Expansion: Expanding offerings including Breaking Stigma and the Overdose Readiness Drill, with a new Motivational Interviewing for Perinatal Substance Use curriculum forthcoming.
  • MOMs+ Collaboration: Partnering with MOMs+ to deliver these frontline educational modules to care teams across Colorado.

Sustainability Planning

  • Framework Alignment: CPCQC is developing a data-driven Sustainability Framework aligned with C.R.S. § 25-52-106.5 / SB24-175. This framework establishes clear progression criteria into sustainability status and builds a library of durable implementation tools.

CORE (Colorado Obstetric Readiness in Emergency Care)

  • Rural ED Emergency Preparedness: Launching a hands-on, simulation-based training initiative brought directly to rural and low-volume emergency departments to improve recognition, stabilization, and transfer coordination for obstetric complications. First onsite training planned for January 2027.

2. Community & Taskforce Acknowledgments

  • SPARK IPV Taskforce: Special recognition to taskforce members, early pilot sites (St. Anthony Summit Hospital and East Morgan County Hospital), and project partners Seb Fairbanks and Abbie Lewis from Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN).
  • “We All Have a Role” Training: Developed in partnership with the University of Colorado PRE Section (Dr. Sarah Nagle-Yang & Dr. Ayelet Talmi) and pilot-tested by the Eagle County IMPACT BH Continuum of Care, this new bilingual course builds provider skills in recognizing and responding to perinatal behavioral health needs.

3. Data Infrastructure & 7-Month Metric Highlights

Infrastructure & Analytics

  • Power BI Migration: Transitioning all initiative dashboards to Power BI by January 2027 for unified access and standardized UI/UX reporting.
  • Adoption Tracking: Launching a meta-dashboard to monitor consumption and engagement of published QI reports.
  • New Dashboards: Developing the FIRST program internal dashboard (capturing patient qualitative experiences) and the IMPACT BH evaluation dashboard for rural outpatient clinics.

7-Month Clinical Highlights (Jan – July 2026 Data)

  • NEST: Documented screening for home sleep environment before discharge surged from 19% in January to 78% in July across 9 cohort hospitals.
  • SOAR: Q3 NTSV C-section rate stands at 23.4% (below the Healthy People target of 23.6%) across 16 hospitals. 9 sustainable hospitals are on track to graduate at year-end.
  • SPARK: Outstanding pre-discharge screening rates across 11 hospitals: 85% for IPV (5,237 patients), 95% for PMHCs (5,854 patients), and 91% for SSDoH (5,607 patients).
  • Turning the Tide: Universal substance use screening averaged 90% across 25 hospitals (20,095 patients). 91% of patients with a positive screen received a social work consultation, surpassing the 80% goal.

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