The Learning Session will bring to the assembled physicians, nurses, social workers, hospital leadership and other clinical staff the information to move forward with best practices around OUD/SUD prenatal education and screening workflows, to also recommend the covid vaccination to pregnant people, to solve the issue of pulling data on race and ethnicity.

Agenda

8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. – PA PQC Successes, Developments, & Updates – Robert Ferguson, MPH, Chief Policy Officer, Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF)

8:45 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. – Best Practices for Collecting Race and Ethnicity Data – Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH, Director, The Disparities Solutions Center

9:35 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. – Communicating with Patients and Families about Reproduction-Linked Vaccine Hesitancy – Denise A. Johnson, MD, Acting Physician General, PA Department of Health

9:45 a.m. to 10:35 a.m. – PA PQC Initiative Breakouts – Co-facilitated by PA PQC care team leaders and coaches

Each PA PQC participant will join one of the following virtual breakouts that pertains to their PA PQC quality improvement initiative. Each participant will then be asked to raise their question or challenge during the breakout, and their peers in the virtual breakout will be asked to respond to their question or challenge, with facilitation from the PA PQC care team leaders and coaches.

NAS Breakout – Care Team Leaders: Shawndel Laughner, MHA, BSN, RNC-OB, Director, Women & Children’s Services, St. Clair Health; Kim Amon, RNC, Professional Development Specialist, AHN St. Vincent Hospital; Anita Alloway, RNC, Allegheny Health Network St. Vincent Hospital

Maternal OUD Breakout – Care Team Leaders: Susan Utterback, DNP, MSIT, RN, Nursing Systems Coordinator, Women and Children’s Services, Abington Jefferson Health; Adena Brewington-Brown, DNP, CRNP, Administrative Nurse Practitioner, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Main Line Health Lankenau Medical Center

Immediate Postpartum LARC Breakout – Care Team Leaders: Elissa Concini, MSN, RN-OB, Women's Health Quality and Safety RN, Geisinger Health System

Moving on Maternal Depression (MOMD) Breakout – Care Team Leaders: Kerin Kohler, Women's Health Social Worker, Women's Health Center, Tower Health Reading; Brittany Bogar, RN, Quality Improvement Advisor, Penn State Health

PA AIM Severe Hypertension and Racial/Ethnic Disparities Breakout – Care Team Leaders: Elizabeth Pyle, MSN, MBA, RNC-MNN, Nurse Manager, Mother Baby/Antepartum Unit, Pen Medicine Pennsylvania Hospital; Vivian Petticord DNP, RNC, CNL, Director, Women’s Health Service Line, Magee-Womens Hospital, UPMC

10:35 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. – Prenatal Education: Maternal OUD and NAS – Lorena Watson, RN, FNP, Sutter Lakeside Hospital and Community Clinic; Gail M. Herrine, MD, Associate Professor, Clinical Obstetrics & Reproductive Sciences, Medical Director, Post-Partum, Temple

11:25 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. – Best Practices for SUD/OUD Screening, Testing, & Follow-Up – Tricia Wright, MD, MS, Professor, Ob/Gyn & RS, University of California, San Francisco

12:25 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Wrap-Up & Next Steps – Pauline Taylor, Program Specialist, JHF