Louisiana Perinatal
Quality Collaborative
Promoting safe, equitable, and dignified birth.
Working to Support Perinatal and Neonatal Care in Louisiana
The LaPQC works to advance equity, improve outcomes and change the culture of care in Louisiana by building a quality improvement movement focused on the implementation of evidence-based best practice. Using quality improvement methods, we work with birthing facilities to put into effect practices that promote safe, equitable and dignified patient-centered care for all people who give birth and their infants in Louisiana.
Initiatives
The Gift
Seeks to improve maternal and infant outcomes related to breastfeeding and birth parent-infant bonding.
Safe Births Initiative
The primary home for AIM bundle implementation and perinatal outcomes work.
ICSED
Our initiative focused on outcomes related to dyads affected by substance & opioid use disorder.
Caregiver Perinatal Depression Screening
Our work that seeks to understand screening & referral pathways for caregivers affected by depression.
Key Partners
Health Equity in Practice
Health equity means that all individuals have the ability to achieve optimal health outcomes. The LaPQC acknowledges the historical systemic inequities that impact negative health outcomes for Black and brown individuals. These systems combined with implicit bias are at the root of our health disparities. The LaPQC is committed to intentionally working with our birthing facilities to recognize and dismantle those systems within the healthcare environment as well as center the voices of our patients through patient partnership.
To learn more about health equity, explore CDC’s Using a Health Equity Lens.