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Institute for Digital Health & Innovation: High-Risk Pregnancy Program

The Perinatal Outcomes Workgroup through Education Research (POWER)

The Institute for Digital Health and Innovation High-Risk Pregnancy Program

Why We Exist

  • Pregnant women in the U.S. are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than women in Japan or the U.K.
  • The U.S. has the highest maternal death rate among developed countries at 19.9/100,000 or about 700 deaths/year (2016). In Arkansas, that rate rises to 35.4/100,000 (2016) or about 14 deaths/year overall making us among the bottom five states nationally. The Black maternal mortality rate is 3x greater than their white counterparts
  • The POWER Program works to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes in Arkansas.
  • This work is accomplished through POWER’s outreach model. Providing in-person facilitation, education, safety bundle implementation and quality improvement support.

 

Learn More About Current Maternal Safety Bundle Work

For more information, please email us at POWER@UAMS.edu.

 

 

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