News For Tag "preterm birth"

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  Empowering Patient Responsibility: Part 2

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, January 31, 2017

  Our previous post, “The Dangerous Myth of Patient Responsibility,” discussed patient responsibility through the lens of a missed healthcare visit and the social inequities that can create barriers to accessing healthcare. Two perspectives, by a patient and provider, demonstrated how a provider may make an assumption that a patient who repeatedly misses her appointments is irresponsible and apathetic, when the reality is the patient relies on undependable public transit and does not have enough m

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  Our Maternity Care Home Model on Alive and Well STL

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, January 17, 2017

  Alive and Well STL is sharing our poster on our Maternity Care Home model on their website along with a list of resources for parents to help alleviate the stress of parenting. Our poster describes our maternity care model that addresses all aspects of women's health including physical, mental, and environmental aspects, within a trauma-informed framework and the success of our model in reducing preterm births, reducing NICU utilization, and cost savings.

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  Maternity Care Program Receives Dr. Corinne Walentik Award

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Thursday, October 6, 2016

  We are honored for both our maternity care home program, originally called Signature's Strong Start program, and our program director Maribeth Hollinshead, to receive the Dr. Corinne Walentik Provider/Practitioner Award at the Maternal, Child & Family Health Coalition 2016 Standing Up for Mothers and Babies Annual Awards Dinner.

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  Maternity Bundled Payments = Bundles of Savings

  posted by Signature Care Management Team on Tuesday, September 13, 2016

  In the recent article titled “Bundles of Joy? How new payment models for maternal care could deliver lower costs” in Modern Healthcare, a healthcare executive in the article states that “the devil is in the details” and maternity bundles can be hard to implement because they are “so complex.” Like any new initiative in the US healthcare system, the implementation of an alternative financial model can be challenging. However, one of the first steps before entering into a bundled payment model is