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Simmons Ballroom 2
Monday, October 29, 2007: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

B2: B-2 Moving Beyond Pregnancy: Strategies for Impacting Interconceptional Services

Four very different approaches to impact interconceptional health services will be presented and discussed. They are: utilization of a quality improvement initiative o optimize the delivery and utilization of postpartum care; using pediatric encounters which are organized around a group care model (Centering Parenting) to reach mothers with interconceptional messages and education; extension of a program serving pregnant women with substance abuse problems into the first year following pregnancy and a public-private partnership to impact the content of preconceptional and interconceptional services particularly around the care of women with chronic diseases .
Moderator:Merry K Moos
3:30 PMEarly Start: An Evidence-Based Model of Substance Abuse Intervention Integrated into Women's Primary OB Care
Cosette Taillac, Nancy Goler, Kathleen Haley, Veronica Osejo
3:45 PMPreconception care starts postpartum: Implementing a Quality Improvement Framework to Enhance Postpartum Care in Los Angeles County
Janice I. French, Carolina Reyes, M. Lynn Yonekura, The Healthy Births Care Quality Collaborative Planning Group
4:00 PMPreconception Care: An Opportunity to Prevent Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
Renee Samelson, Donna Montalto Williams, Catriona Stevenson, Adiel Fleischer, Cynthia Chazotte
4:15 PMCentering Parenting as a Model for Preconception Care
Amy Gordon, Gillian Fynn, Sharon S. Rising

The 2nd National Summit on Preconception Health and Health Care of CDC