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MIH Provider EducationMIH provides best practice materials for health care professionals at Publications for Health Care Professionals. Breastfeeding: MIH promotes breastfeeding through work with First Steps agencies (Maternity Support Services and Maternity Case Management), WIC, Within Reach (formerly Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies), and the Breastfeeding Infant Friendly Workplace Promotion. Regional Perinatal Programs: MIH manages contracts with four regional perinatal centers in Washington State to coordinate and implement state and regional quality improvements projects to decrease poor pregnancy outcomes for which Medicaid clients are at disproportionately increased risk. Perinatal Partnership Against Domestic Violence (PPADV): The PPADV curriculum is designed for health care professionals and advocates who provide training for perinatal health care providers. The goal is to increase provider awareness of domestic violence and to provide tools for health care professionals to provide culturally competent domestic violence identification and intervention in pregnant and postpartum women. For more information, call Washington State Department of Health: 360-236-3501 or Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence: 206-389-2515, ext. 104, or the Washington State Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-562-6025. HIV: MIH works with the Department of Health HIV program to reduce perinatal HIV transmission through reduction of HIV infection in women. Maternal Substance Abuse Screening Provider Initiative: MIH works to enhance prenatal provider substance abuse screening practices so that more women with abuse patterns are identified and engaged in treatment. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): MIH works collaboratively with the Washington State SIDS Foundation, Children & Family Health and Medical Assistance Administration on Back to Sleep education campaigns with high risk populations in Washington State. For more information on SIDS: http://www.sids.org/ or http://thesidsfoundation.org/default.aspx; phone 1-800-533-0376 Tobacco: Women who smoke during pregnancy have a higher risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, and low birth weight babies. SIDS rates are over 6 times higher for infants who mothers smoke during pregnancy. Therefore a strategy to reduce tobacco use during pregnancy and decrease second hand smoke exposure was identified for use with the First Steps (MSS) population. This program provides educational materials and methods to assist providers in helping women stop using tobacco products during and after pregnancy. For more information, click Tobacco (above). In addition, effective January 1, 2002, Medical Assistance Administration (MAA) in Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) added Medicaid coverage of a smoking cessation benefit for pregnant and postpartum women (up to 2 months postpartum), as described on the MAA Smoking Cessation Counseling Benefit reference card. For additional services on tobacco programs, see www.doh.wa.gov/tobacco/ or call the Quit Line at 1-877-270-7867. Maternal and Infant Health and Tobacco Prevention and Control Program in collaboration with DSHS, the statewide Perinatal Advisory Committee and other heath care professionals have developed a best practice booklet for prenatal care providers. Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy: Guidelines for Intervention includes information on using motivational interviewing techniques, tips for dealing with relapse, developing quit plans, expanded pharmacotherapy information and additional resources. Maternity Support Services (MSS): Portion of First Steps program overseen by DOH designed as preventative services to help women have a healthy pregnancy outcome. Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary team and include assessment, education, intervention and counseling and referral. MIH provides technical assistance, training and monitors MSS providers statewide. First Steps Program Family Planning: Maternal and Infant Health/Maternity Support Services works collaboratively with Family Planning and Reproductive Health and Medical Assistance Administration to provide continuing family planning training/updates to First Step providers and other health care providers in Washington State. Washington State Maternal Child Health Training Plan for Improving Child and Family Health: The University of Washington School of Nursing and Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training (NCAST) program, provides research based training and support to the maternal child health work force in Local Health Departments and private First Step Providers in Washington State. Partners in this effort include: Community and Family Health (including Maternal and Infant Health), Medical Assistance Administration, and the Public Health Nursing Directors. DOH Publications: DOH has a variety of publications targeted to consumers and health care providers. (Health education catalog website under development). To request a catalog and order forms, call the DOH Distribution Center at 360-586-9046. MIH also has its own list of Health Professional Publications. Perinatal Advisory Committee (PAC): The PAC is staffed by MIH and brings together representatives from the four regional perinatal programs, professional organizations, consumer groups, and state agencies to review and assess perinatal health issues and assist in developing policies and practices to improve perinatal outcomes.WIC (Women Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program): WIC serves pregnant women and children up to age five. WIC is co-located with many First Steps agencies. For more information, call 1-800-841-1410. Infectious Disease and Reproductive Health Office: MIH works closely with the HIV and the Family Planning Reproductive Health programs within the Office of Infectious Disease Reproductive Health at DOH. Collaborative activities are focused on reducing HIV and unintended pregnancy, and promoting preconceptional care. Local Health Departments: MIH program staff work closely with local health departments to oversee contract activities and provide consultation and technical assistance when needed. Medical Assistance Administration (MAA): MIH coordinates activities with the First Steps Program, which includes Maternity Support Services and Maternity Case Management. MAA supports additional programs in partnership with MIH, including Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, the DOH Tobacco Quit Line, and the Perinatal Regional Programs. DSHS’s Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (DASA) : MIH coordinated and collaborated with DASA to contract with the regional perinatal programs to improve drug and alcohol screening by perinatal care providers. Efforts are focused on working with all prenatal providers with particular outreach to the comprehensive drug treatment and case management pilots in Snohomish, Whatcom, and Benton-Franklin Counties. University of Washington School of Nursing: MIH contracts with the UW School of Nursing for education and training of public health professionals. This includes training and support for the Nurse Family Partnerships (David Olds Home Visitation Pilots); and NCAST training for MSS community health nurses, pyschosocial workers and registered dieticians; and child care consultants. |
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