The MNPQC is excited to elevate the MNPQC mission to improve perinatal outcomes in collaboration with our member organizations across Minnesota. This future partnership with AIM will both facilitate a national forum for the exchange of innovative ideas and serve as a resource to our state in continuous improvement in maternal safety and quality.

Further background information on AIM: AIM Program – Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health | AIM Program (Previously Council on Patient Safety) (safehealthcareforeverywoman.org).

Please see our website to learn more about the MNPQC, its current committees, and initiatives.

This series will focus on the intersection of perinatal opioid and polysubstance use and perinatal mental health. Dr. Cresta Jones will be co-directing this series along with Dr. Katie Thorsness, the perinatal psychiatrist at the Hennepin Health Redleaf Center.

Sessions will be held from 12:15 to 1:15 on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. The format will remain the same – a short didactic session followed by a case review – we encourage you all to consider cases you have been involved with for discussion of best practices in general or for specific individual guidance issues.

This program is geared towards any stakeholders who influence, provide, or support care for pregnant people experiencing mental health or substance use disorders – this includes students, residents, and fellows as well.
We hope this series will help expand trauma-informed and stigma-free care for our patients and their families.

Visit the Resources Page on our new website to access the numerous Community Organizations and online resources. These resources aid birthing people and their babies, as well as healthcare professionals interested in improving perinatal health across Minnesota. If you don’t see your organization listed, or know of an organization or helpful resource that is missing, please contact us at info@minnesotaperinatal.org to the community resource section.