​​Symposium: Using Data to Improve Maternity Care in California

Join leading researchers and practitioners in maternity health care to examine research priorities and to explore ways Medi-Cal data can be leveraged to develop opportunities for improving maternal health care.

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Symposium: Using Data to Improve Maternity Care in California
Thursday, June 19 to Friday, June 20, 2014
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Pacific
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• Agenda
  

Presenter slides

• Presenter Biographies​
  
• Why we need a vastly expanded version of maternity care by Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
  
• Transforming Maternity Care: 2020 Vision for a High-Quality, High-Value Maternity Care System and Blueprint for Action by Maureen Corry, MPH
• New Mothers Speak Out: Selected Findings from Listening to Mothers III National Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences by Maureen Corry, MPH 
• Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes of Foreign and US-born Women of Mexican Origin by Sylvia Guendelman, PhD
• Using Data to Improve Maternity Care in California by Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH
• Improving Postpartum Care through Quality Improvement by Julia Logan, MD, MPH​
  
• Using California Maternity Data to Drive Quality Improvement by Elliot Main, MD and Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH
• Description of DHCS Datasets that Can Support the Improvement of Maternity Care:  A Users Perspective by Brian Paciotti, PhD, MS
• How Researchers Can Access DHCS Data by Linette Scott, MD, MPH
• How Researchers Can Access OSHPD ​Data by Ron Spingarn, MS

*Please note that all presentations are in PDF format