The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health has announced the final phase winners for the HHS. The national competition was created to identify and reward innovative programs that ensure women with hypertension during pregnancy and/or postpartum receive appropriate monitoring and follow-up.
more than 1 in 5 delivery hospitalizations of Black women and about 1 in 6 delivery hospitalizations of American Indian and Alaska Native women . Factors that contribute to these disparities include lack of access to and quality of health care, racial bias in the health care system, and psychosocial stress from experiencing racism. In addition, women from all ethnicities and backgrounds also face barriers to managing blood pressure, including cost, transportation, schedules, locality , and lack of education about the importance of good blood pressure control.
“Managing hypertension before, during, and after pregnancy is paramount for the well-being of both mother and baby,” said Dorothy Fink, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women’s Health and Director of the Office on Women’s Health. “By empowering health care providers and mothers, we contribute to healthier pregnancies and improved maternal and infant outcomes.”
The third and final phase of the competition rewards programs that successfully replicated and/or expanded. The following phase 3 winners have each received a prize of up to $100,000:The Remote Cloud Connected Postpartum Blood Pressure Monitoring Program at Boston Medical Center utilizes a cloud-based platform to identify high-risk women post-delivery, providing them with cell-enabled blood pressure cuffs for six weeks.
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