About our Initiatives


The Oregon Perinatal Collaborative and the Northwest Neonatal Improvement Priority Alliance seek to support multidisciplinary networks to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. Our current active initiatives are listed below. Our work engages providers, patients, public health experts and advocates, and community leaders in the development, dissemination, and implementation of evidence based best practices.


Current ongoing initiatives

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Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy Patient Safety Bundle 

Oregon Perinatal Collaborative (OPC) is currently developing our next initiative focused on severe hypertension in pregnancy and the postpartum period. The first workgroup meeting to develop the toolkit was held on January 25th, and we …

Oregon Community Birth Transfer Partnership

Background Planned home births and birth center births (also known as community births) are relatively common in Oregon compared to most of the United States. Four percent of births in Oregon and 1.6 percent of …

Induction of Labor

The Oregon Perinatal Collaborative is compiling evidence based best practices for induction of labor. If you’re interested in this work or want to receive a copy of our tool kit when it is released in …