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Policy and Strategy

Working state-wide with hospitals, clinical teams, community-based organizations, state agencies, and with the support of a national network of perinatal quality collaboratives gives CPCQC the opportunity to raise up solutions as well as issues that are best addressed using system-level levers and influence.

About Policy and Strategy

CPCQC engages partners, policymakers, and clinical and community healthcare champions to use data, evidence-based practice, and scalable policy concepts to drive sustainable systems-wide change in perinatal and infant outcomes. This body of work includes: 

  • Policy development
  • Advising on regulatory action
  • Policy implementation across the state
  • Collective action facilitation and leadership

The organization leads or collaborates with partners on X current policy and strategy functions

  • Leading CPCQC’s own policy agenda 
  • Leading the Rural Perinatal Health Roundtable
  • Co-chairing the Perinatal Behavioral Health Policy and Financing Coalition
  • Co-Chairing the Maternal Health Taskforce
  • Leading the Colorado Safe Transfers Coalition

Why

Working state-wide with hospitals, clinical teams, community-based organizations, state agencies, and with the support of a national network of perinatal quality collaboratives gives CPCQC the opportunity to raise up solutions as well as issues that are best addressed using system-level levers and influence.

In service to our vision and mission, CPCQC is focused on coordinating across the following policy areas:

Policy Principle #1 – Advance Perinatal Health Data & Quality Improvement
Policy Principle #2 – Promote Access to Safe, Equitable, High-Quality Perinatal Healthcare
Policy Principle #3 – Reform Perinatal Healthcare Payment Policies
Policy Principle #4 – Connect Perinatal Clinical & Community Care Settings

While raising policy issues is one side of our work, the other is to support state-wide implementation of enacted or regulatory policies and both developing and promulgating model guidelines for hospital facility policy that support best practices in perinatal healthcare.

Results

  • Development and successful passage of SB24-175 – Improving Perinatal Health Outcomes Act
  • Identified the need for and launch of the CDPHE Office of Suicide Prevention’s new Maternal Suicide Prevention Taskforce
  • Facilitated development of the first Colorado Consensus Safe Transfer Guidelines
  • Implementation of the SuPPort Colorado Toxicology Testing Guidelines

Program Partners

  • Illuminate Colorado – Co-chair of Perinatal Behavioral Health Policy and Financing Coalition and SuPPORT Colorado
  • Colorado Hospital Association and Elephant Circle – Co-Chairs of the Colorado Safe Transfers Coalition

 

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