Bureau of Maternal & Infant Care Update

December 10, 2010

SLEEP SAFE TRAINING

Agencies and Providers TrainedJuly – November 2010

Type of Provider Number of Organizations Number of providers

City Agency 11 130

Hospital 12 140

Non Profit 2 14

Day Care 3 55

FQHC 5 45

High School 1 35

Family Support Center 5 24

State 2 65

School 6 75

Total 47 583

Sleep Safe Video Shown in Birthing Hospitals

Hospital Shown? (Y/N) Status

JHH Y Voluntary Commitment Statement (VCS) is

being reviewed by forms committee Maryland General Y Discharge paper being used, adding

additional bullets

UMMS Y Being shown

St Agnes Y Used in discharge parent education. In committee for mandatory viewing.

Bayview N To be shown (no timeline given)

Harbor N To be shown (no timeline given)

Mercy N TVs on order (no timeline given)

Sinai N Estimate showing by Dec

Bureau of Maternal & Infant Care

M&I Leadership & Training

• Revised evidence-based national home visiting curriculum (Partners for a Healthy Baby) and led implementation in all nurse home visiting programs

• Led training for all nurse home visiting programs in the city

• Piloting postpartum home visits by nursing students across the city

• Revised and streamlined citywide home visiting services and triage criteria

Innovative Client Interventions

• Conducted pilot citywide Weight Watchers intervention – Total weight loss over 2 months = >400 lbs.– Awarded $100,000 planning grant from DHHS

Office of Women’s Health

• Introduced smoking cessation training for citywide programs

• Distributed 500 cribs over FY10 and managed citywide crib distribution program

Key Results

• Made 3129 successful home visits (Jan to Oct 2010)

• On average, 59% of M&I clients who smoke have reduced the number of cigarettes smoked per day (Jan to Oct 2010)

• On average, 68% of M&I Infants have a safe sleep environment as observed by case managers (Apr to Oct 2010).

• On average, 21% of M&I mothers breastfeed, exclusively, infants 0-4 months old (Jan to Oct 2010)

• 7% of M&I women got pregnant again within 18 months of giving birth (9 of 245 Jan to Oct 2010)

TEXT FOR BABY

Number of Registrants

• There have been 298 registrants on Text4Baby from February 3 - October 20, 2010

• All city zip codes are represented –42% of registrants were from BHB funded communities including:

– Greenmount East: 21202, 21213

– Patterson Park N&E: 21224, 21231, 21205

– Upton/Druid Heights: 21201, 21217, 21223

• Of the 298, six (6) were Spanish speaking

Text4Baby Data Source: Voxiva

3 CommunitiesNumber of Text4Baby Users in 3 Targeted Communities (total)

Outreach Started

Proportion of Pregnant Women Reached in BHB Targeted Communities

Greenmount East

20%

80%

Reached

Not Reached

Patterson Park N & E

30%

70%

Reached

Not Reached

Upton/Druid Heights

14%

86%

Reached

Not Reached

* Number of Pregnant Women:

• Greenmount East = 174

• Patterson Park N&E = 170

• Upton/Druid Heights = 291

* Data Source: MD Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Vital Statistic Administration 2005-2007 data (# births)

Low Birth Weights by CSA

15

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