The Ohio Hospital Association and our member hospitals and health systems are committed to providing optimal care for Ohio’s mothers, babies, and families.

For over a decade,  OHA has prioritized “Infant Mortality Reduction” as one of our key clinical initiatives. OHA has worked closely with our hospitals, statewide collaboratives, Ohio Department of Health (ODH), and the Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative (OPQC) on initiatives around things like safe sleep, early elective deliveries, progesterone, safe spacing, and other clinical topics of interest.  OHA, in partnership with ODH, also maintains a statewide hospital designation program for hospitals around breastfeeding support and promotion, Ohio First Steps for Healthy Babies.

In 2019, OHA expanded the focus of our efforts to prioritize ‘Maternal and Infant Health’. In partnership with ODH, OHA led the process for Ohio to join the national Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) program, facilitated by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Statewide efforts so far have focused on patient safety bundles around severe maternal hypertension and obstetric hemorrhage. Future bundles will focus on substance use disorder in pregnancy and maternal sepsis.