AIM - Safe Reduction of Primary Cesarean Birth

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The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) is a national partnership of organizations poised to reduce severe maternal morbidity by 100,000 events and maternal mortality by 1,000 deaths by 2018. The AIM program is funded through a cooperative agreement with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau/Health Resource Services Administration.

  • AIM aligns national, state, and hospital level efforts to improve maternal health and safety
  • AIM develops maternal safety bundles and promotes their implementation in all birth facilities to ensure consistent maternity care  
  • AIM Bundles: 
    • Obstetric Hemorrhage
    • Severe Hypertension/Preeclampsia
    • Maternal Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism
    • Safe Reduction of Primary C/S | Support for Intended Vaginal Birth
    • Reduction of Peripartum Racial Disparities
    • Postpartum Care Basics for Maternal Safety
    • Patient, Family, and Staff Support after a Severe Maternal Event
  • AIM facilitates multidisciplinary and interagency collaboration between states and hospitals
  • AIM supports harmonized data-driven continuous quality improvement processes
  • AIM provides evidence-based implementation resources to streamline bundle implementation

Core AIM Partners Include:

  • American College of Nurse Midwives 
  • The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 
  • Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs 
  • ASTHO 
  • AWHONN 
  • California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative 
  • HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau 
  • Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine
Updates

Updates

December 9, 2020 - Lake Norman Regional Medical Center is taking charge of their RPC data and working to improve clinical nursing care for laboring women.  The team at LNRMC examined the most common indications for cesarean delivery and Read more...
October 26, 2020 - Recently, Frye Medical center began utilizing the CUB birthing stool for labor support.  CUB is an acronym for “Comfortable Upright Birth”.  The CUB stool is an inflatable device shaped like the letter “C” that allows Read more...
Results

Results