The “Birth-Centered Outcomes Research Engagement (B-CORE) in Medi-Cal” Project: Community-Generated Recommendations to Decrease Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity
IF 2.8 2区 医学Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
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Abstract
Background
Through applied research and health care quality improvement, California has achieved a maternal mortality (MM) rate significantly lower than that measured nationally. However, Medicaid (Medi-Cal)-insured births in the state continue to experience disproportionate shares of MM and severe maternal morbidity (SMM), which often precedes death. Failure to engage the Medi-Cal community in this work may impede efforts to increase equity.
Methods
This community engagement project used deliberative democracy methods to engage stakeholders with lived experience in California's Medi-Cal perinatal care system to generate an actionable and specific agenda of recommendations to decrease MM and SMM in the Medi-Cal population.
Findings
A total of 37 Medi-Cal stakeholders—representing birthing people, providers, health plan administrators, and advocates—participated in longitudinal co-learning sessions on the topics of MM/SMM in Medi-Cal. Most of these stakeholders (75.7%) then participated in deliberation sessions. Deliberation recommendations fell into five distinct categories: Medi-Cal perinatal covered benefits, data collection and dissemination, patient experience and its link to care quality, Medi-Cal reimbursement rates, and accountability with respect to racism in perinatal care. Stakeholders identified the Medi-Cal system actors best positioned to implement specific recommendations to directly impact MM/SMM.
Conclusions
This project demonstrates the feasibility and success of using deliberative democracy methods to generate local and community-generated solutions to critical problems in health equity. Active and engaged stakeholders were keen to identify both immediate actions and long-term research and quality improvement paradigm shifts to support birth equity in Medi-Cal.
期刊介绍:
Women"s Health Issues (WHI) is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly, multidisciplinary journal that publishes research and review manuscripts related to women"s health care and policy. As the official journal of the Jacobs Institute of Women"s Health, it is dedicated to improving the health and health care of all women throughout the lifespan and in diverse communities. The journal seeks to inform health services researchers, health care and public health professionals, social scientists, policymakers, and others concerned with women"s health.