Maternal Health
Heart health starts in the womb, according to researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who found that babies had better heart health after birth when their mothers exercised, even moderately, throughout pregnancy.
. In this conversation, Jessica Galo, director of specialty care at AdventHealth for Children, and Jaeann Ashton, marketing director of Women's and Children's at AdventHealth, explore how the 鈥淏e a Mindleader鈥 campaign is leading the way to improving adolescent mental health with these life-鈥
Given the pressures of parenting, learn how health care organizations are supporting new moms to enable them to thrive at work, and most importantly, at home, in the final episode of AHA鈥檚 鈥淏eyond Birth鈥 podcast series.
Mounting pressures on the health care workforce have created a crisis with short-term staffing shortages and a long-range picture of an unfulfilled talent pipeline, and significant projected shortages of physicians and allied health and behavioral health care providers will likely be felt even more鈥
AHA Statement to Senate HELP Committee on workforce diversity, maternal health.
In this conversation, two behavioral health experts from Ascension's outpatient program share the formula for its success in helping at-risk new moms.
AHA鈥檚 Better Health for Mothers and Babies initiative April 29 released a resource highlighting strategies hospitals are implementing to raise awareness and detect heart health needs early, during and after pregnancy.
This resource highlights the risk factors and disparities that contribute to heart conditions in pregnancy, shares actionable solutions for providers, and offers strategies hospitals are implementing strategies to raise awareness and detect heart health needs early, during and after pregnancy.
Kittitas Valley Healthcare in rural Washington state last year implemented an innovative new model for retaining essential obstetric and other women鈥檚 health services in its community.
Michael Pitt, M.D., a pediatric hospitalist at M Health Fairview Masonic Children鈥檚 Hospital, helped create a mobile application that sends real-time notifications to patients鈥 families on when their doctors are making their rounds, creating opportunities for those families to see them.