Partnership & Outreach
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The Collaborative has completed a strategic plan aimed at achieving an 8% reduction in preterm births and 4% reduction in infant mortality. To date, over 100 people and organizations across Hawaii have been involved, including physicians and clinicians, public health advocates, insurance providers and health care administrators.

Pre and Inter-conception Care
Reducing Hawaii’s unintended pregnancy rate is a major focus of the Collaborative. One Key Question (OKQ) is an initiative created by Oregon Foundation for Reproductive Health (OFRH) that is a simple program designed to incorporate pregnancy intention screenings in primary care settings. Screening women for their pregnancy intentions could prove to be the proactive intervention we need to increase the proportion of pregnancies that are wanted, planned, and as healthy as possible.
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC)
The preconception/inter-conception work group has been busy behind the scenes organizing a plan to establish baseline data on birth spacing and contraceptive use in Hawaii’s Medicaid population.
Contact
Candace Calhoun, candice.calhoun@doh.hawaii.gov or
Sharon Thomas, sthomas2@dhs.hawaii.gov
if you are interested in joining the Preconception Team work group.
Infant Health & Safety
The second objective for the Infant Health and Safety Team is to make investigate the current system of care to support the caregivers of substance-exposed infants.
To join in this work contact Keiko Nitta at Keiko.nitta@doh.hawaii.gov or
Lisa Kimura at lisak@hmhb-hawaii.org.
Care During Pregnancy & Delivery
We have prioritized two strategies to improve birth outcomes and decrease pre-term births through 1) the reduction of risk factors for tobacco, alcohol, and drug use during pregnancy through prenatal screening, assessment, brief intervention and referral to treatment and 2) increasing appropriate access to progesterone use for those women at risk of pre-term birth.
To join the Team or for more information contact: Lin Joseph at hjoseph@marchofdimes.org
Advocacy & Policy
Many people have worked to make this effort successful; position papers were written to make the case to Legislators, the Department of Health and professional associations have collaborated to find solutions to member concerns and key legislators have supported the efforts and challenged us to find a pathway for implementation. The funding level will be determined in conference committee. But as the saying goes “nobody has sung yet,” so we will stay on top of the bill for the upcoming weeks ahead.
To join the Advocacy Team please contact Dr. Autumn Broady at abroady@hawaii.edu.
Key Priority:
Breastfeeding
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Key Priority:
Reduce Unintended Pregnancies through
One Key Question®:
Reducing Hawaii’s unintended pregnancy rate is a major focus of the Collaborative. One Key Question (OKQ) is an initiative created by Oregon Foundation for Reproductive Health (OFRH) that is designed to incorporate pregnancy intention screenings in primary care settings. Screening women for their pregnancy intentions can help increase the proportion of pregnancies that are wanted, planned, and as healthy as possible.
The goal is to incorporate pregnancy intention screenings in routine settings, where patients are screened every 3 months to a year, regardless of the reason for the woman’s visit.
Training clinicians and non-clinicians on using One Key Question® to support reproductive health and pregnancy planning is underway. This work group is now planning activities for public education supporting reproductive health and related outcomes.
Mission
Vision
Hawaii families will benefit from a system of support that permit them to intend, initiate, and maintain breastfeeding to achieve optimum health outcomes for both mother and child.
Goal
Presentations from January 9th, 2018 Meeting
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