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Respectful Maternity Care

December is Universal Human Rights Month. This is a great time to learn about the universal human rights of women, pregnant people, and newborns during childbirth outlined in documents like the Respectful Maternity Care Charter and The Rights of Childbearing Women. The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) provides a Respectful Maternity Care Toolkit designed to help organizations implement each element of respectful care. OPC’s recent webinar on Informed Consent and Respectful Care with Dr. Nicholas Rubashkin of University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Human Rights in Childbirth also provides a great foundation on this topic. You can watch the recording of the webinar here.

Quality Improvement Initiatives

Participate in OPC’s Naloxone Sprint

Naloxone Sprint enrollment is open now through Jan. 5, 2026! Hospital teams can enroll in a four-month hospital sprint that will run February through May 2026 and will support teams’ compliance with SB 1043, requiring hospitals to provide two doses of overdose reversal medication to patients at risk of overdose. Detailed templates and assistance designed specifically for the perinatal population will be provided. The Oregon Perinatal Collaborative and the Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) Safe Deliveries teams are collaborating on tools and learning throughout the work, as Washington will also be having a Naloxone sprint during this time. The enrollment packet with more information and link to the enrollment form can be found on the OPC Substance Use Disorder (SUD) site.

The 16-month Perinatal SUD quality improvement initiative will kick off in September 2026 and build on the momentum of the Naloxone sprint! Interested teams are encouraged to complete this intent to enroll form at any time, so the OPC can continue to partner and support planning ahead of the kickoff. More information on enrollment will be available later in Spring 2026.

A collection of videos has been added to the OPC site! Inspiring videos from mothers in recovery, as well as examples of verbal screening in both the clinic and labor and delivery (L&D) settings are available now and teams are encouraged to view and use locally to support clinicians in providing trauma informed care.

Newborn Resuscitation

Teams across the state who are participating in the newborn resuscitation initiative continue to work on developing their local priorities and are planning for onsite simulations, which start in 2026. Focus areas include increasing the number of resuscitations that have a pre-brief occur before the delivery, as well as comfort and competence in use of laryngeal mask airways, among others.

Education

ASAM Treatment of OUD for Pregnant Patients Training

American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) offers a variety of addiction education options to meet the requirement for Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-registered practitioners to complete eight hours of training on the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders (SUDs).

 

Highlighted Course

Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder for Pregnant Patients

This eight-hour online course provides education that is essential for providers to identify, assess, diagnose and manage pregnant and postpartum patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).

 

Completing these training opportunities will greatly improve your team’s readiness for the OPC’s 18-month perinatal SUD initiative. They provide practical skills to identify, treat and support pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use disorders.

Comagine Health and the Oregon Perinatal Collaborative are sponsoring clinicians to obtain free access to this training! If you are interested: Find more information regarding the course and OPC sponsored registration here.

Reach out to Ana Sassano at asassano@comagine.org with any questions.

View even more courses here.

Oregon Maternal Data Center Corner

Unexpected Newborn Complication (UNC)

Did you know that the Oregon Maternal Data Center (OMDC) includes your unexpected newborn complication rate as an auto-calculated measure? This Joint Commission perinatal care measure is used to measure morbidity among term newborns without preexisting conditions. The California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) uses the same specifications as the Joint Commission (TJC) for PC-06 and provides your data in three views – overall rate, the rate of severe cases only, and the rate of moderate cases only. You can also look at rates by delivery type among term, singleton and vertex deliveries.

In addition to tracking your rate over time and ability to drill down to individual charts to review the case in more detail, you have access to other helpful tools in the OMDC, including:

  • The definition/algorithm within the measure page, which lists both the numerator and denominator summary, as well as the codes that are used for each.
  • Within the “Measure Analysis” section of this page, you can quickly identify the subcategories (e.g., infection, respiratory, etc.) that are most important for your team to review.
  • Finally, as this measure may be used as a balancing measure for maternal measures such as the NTSV C/S rate. You can use “Compare Two Measures” selection to see whether there are any clinically relevant findings to understand more.

Check out these helpful documents in the OMDC resource library to learn more:

Stay tuned for helpful tips, success stories, and practical ways to make the most of the OMDC. If you have an OMDC-related experience you’d like to share in the Oregon Perinatal Collaborative Newsletter, please contact Ana Sassano at asassano@comagine.org.

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