The Perinatal Data Use Consortium has been formed to engage professionals concerned with maternal and infant health in a learning process. The Region IV Perinatal Center Data Use Consortium advances data knowledge and application to improve the quality of perinatal care across systems. The Perinatal Data Use Consortium process has:
- built on the strengths of regional leadership through a combination of regional teams
- engaged other hospitals, private physicians, public health agency staff and other key stakeholders in a collaborative process to gather data and information to apply to planning, evaluation and quality improvement efforts
- provided structured training that emphasizes model data use strategies and applications related to the continuum of perinatal needs
- promoted greater understanding of the importance of linkages between community based prenatal and postpartum services and in-hospital services around the time of birth
Perinatal Data Use Consortium Members are:
-Gail Bagwell, MSN, CNS: Perinatal Outreach Nurse, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
-Leandro Cordero, MD: Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
-Kathy Cowen, MS: Epidemiologist, Columbus Public Health
-Mary Jo Dickinson: Clinical Manager, Mount Carmel Outreach
-Bette Feist, MA: Clinical Manager, Early Childhood Resource Network
-Corey Ferguson, BS: Project Coordinator, Region IV Perinatal Center
-Monica Juenger: Project Director, Council On Healthy Mothers & Babies
-Heather Tabor, RN, BSN, Assistant Nurse Manager, Maternity Center, Doctor's Hospital