Program Overview

The Perinatal Substance Use ECHO program provides education and training to providers to best support pregnant people with substance use during their pregnancy and birthing process. This includes educational sessions, case reviews and discussions of best practice templates and protocols specifically focused on inpatient perinatal substance use and substance use disorders in the obstetric unit. It is our goal to develop standardized treatment approaches for inpatient perinatal substance use care that will allow for statewide standardization of best practice for all birthing patients affected by substance use and substance use disorders.

Speaker: Katherine Standish, MD

Audience: The aim is to support team members from birthing hospitals and birth centers in Minnesota, to provide the tools to standardize and optimize care for pregnant patients with substance use – regardless of where they on their recovery journey.  Participants will differ from each team but should include:

• Labor and delivery/antepartum nurses
• Obstetric care professionals (OB, family med and pediatric providers, midwives)
• Nursing leadership (e.g. charge nurses)
• Unit/Service line administration
• Inpatient social workers
• Doulas