California MHTF Subcommittees
Subcommittee 1:
Care Experience
Goal: System accountability for high-quality care for pregnant and postpartum women and infants
Strategies:
1. Change the culture of care by holding systems and staff accountable to trauma-informed care
2. Enhance measurement and reporting of patient-reported experiences
3. Establish a system-wide approach for closed-loop feedback accountability for patient care experiences
Subcommittee 2:
Access & Links to Risk Appropriate Care
Goal: Increase access and links to risk appropriate care for pregnant and postpartum women
Strategies:
1. Establish maternal levels of care in California
2. Launch the Obstetric (OB) Comorbidity Index
3. Analyze maternity service closures to identify solutions
Subcommittee 3:
Universal Risk Assessment & Appropriate Follow-Up
Goal: Improve risk assessment (medical, behavioral, and social) and transitions of care for pregnant and postpartum women
Strategies:
1. Launch the Department of Health Care Services' (DHCS's) Transitional Care Services Policy
2. Standardize postpartum discharge from hospitals
3. Standardize prenatal risk assessment and referral
Subcommittee 4:
Data & Data Transparency
Goal: Support data interoperability across health care and public health systems
Strategies:
1. Map data along the birthing care pathway to identify what is being currently collected and what is publicly available
2. Collect and share pregnant and postpartum women’s reported birth experiences
3. Strengthen California’s existing data frameworks and platforms
Subcommittee 5:
Breaking Down Silos & Integrating Systems
Goal: Enable collaboration among organizations supporting pregnant and postpartum women
Strategies:
1. Identify and promote a systems framework to guide the work of the Maternal Health Task Force
2. Institutionalize a process for identifying shared maternal health priorities among State agencies
3. Memorialize and share best practices and learnings from the Maternal Health Task Force