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Center for Health Care Strategies. 2007. Collaborating to improve birth outcomes in New Jersey: A CHCS Project spotlight. [Hamilton, NJ]: Center for Health Care Strategies, 3 pp.

Annotation: This report profiles the experiences of the Center for Health Care Strategies initiative, New Jersey Collaborative to Improve Birth Outcomes and Health Status of Children. The report discusses (1) how the five New Jersey Medicaid plans worked collaboratively to standardize quality improvement (i.e., improve birth outcomes), (2) designing a standardized prenatal risk-assessment form (PRA), (3) getting buy-in from health professionals for the PRA, (4) managing a centralized data repository, (5) key lessons from the improving birth outcomes collaborative, and (6) moving forward.

Contact: Center for Health Care Strategies, 300 American Metro Boulevard, Suite 125, Hamilton, NJ 08619, Telephone: (609) 528-8400 Fax: (609) 586-3679 Web Site: http://www.chcs.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Infant health, Infant mortality, Initiatives: Collaboration, Low birthweight infants, Medicaid, New Jersey, Premature infants, Prenatal care, Prevention programs, State programs
   

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