WV Perinatal Partnership, Inc.

Through our consortium, the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership will focus on ensuring integrated care and care coordination to improve systems of care, family supports, and social determinants of health in Barbour, Greenbrier, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Randolph and Webster counties. The Consortium includes:· WV Perinatal Partnership · Davis Health System, · Greenbrier Physicians, · Robert C Byrd Clinic, · New River Health Association, · Camden Family Health, · West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Center for Rural and Community Health, · WV Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Medical Services, and · Bureau for Social Services, Division of Children and Adult Services. Consortium members have worked together to improve outcomes of mothers and babies since WVPP's inception in 2006. Project activities include increasing access to family-planning services to women of childbearing age who have, or are at risk for, SUD/OUD through the Love Your Birth Control! shared-decision making educational campaign. The consortium will work to keep women engaged in the postpartum period by supporting pediatricians with patient coordinators in office to conduct mood disorder screenings, follow up on SUD treatment, connect moms to wrap around services, in order to prevent subsequent NAS births and high risk SUD pregnancies. Specific additional activities include decreasing social barriers to treatment among pregnant women and mothers through the expansion of DFMB programs into new clinics that provide prenatal and postpartum care, the implementation of a hospital-based quality improvement project focused on a health and safety bundle for the mother-baby dyad with substance exposure, and an anti-stigma campaign. To increase the number of providers and other health and social service professionals who are able to diagnose and treat pregnant women, the Consortium will pilot NAS prevention and postpartum support options through a mobile unit in rural communities.