What is AIM?
The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) is a national data-driven maternal safety and quality improvement initiative. Based on proven safety and quality implementation strategies, AIM works to reduce preventable maternal mortality and severe morbidity across the United States.
Why do we partner?
We collaborate with the AIM to support best practices that make birth safer, improve maternal health outcomes and save lives.
How do we partner?
We partner with AIM to support the creation of tools and infrastructures to better support birth outcomes with respectful maternity care. We participate in AIM partner calls, meetings, and patient safety bundle development to integrate respectful, equitable, and supportive care, working to reduce severe maternal morbidity and mortality nationwide.
What are Patient Safety Bundles?
Patient Safety Bundles are a structured way of improving the processes of care and patient outcomes. They are clinical condition-specific and follow an evidence-based, 5R structure, that when performed collectively and reliably have been proven to improve patient outcomes.
The goal of PSBs is to improve the way care is provided to improve outcomes. A bundle includes actionable steps that can be adapted to a variety of facilities and resource levels.
How is equity considered in a bundle?
While bundles are not meant to be prescriptive, they are meant to provide guidance of best practice. The Respectful Care section in each bundle is meant to highlight best practices in offering and providing respectful, equitable, and supportive care to every patient in every setting from every provider. These concepts of equity are also infused into all other sections of a bundle and are not intended to be limited to a single section. Equity considerations should be foundational to every step of planning and action to address quality and safety in care, including bundle design and implementation.
How can I get involved?
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Visit the AIM website to learn more: https://saferbirth.org/
Watch some AIM videos on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/aimprogram
