CMS Releases Improving Postpartum Care Affinity Group Highlights Brief In 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Improving Postpartum Care learning collaborative to support state Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) agencies efforts to improve health outcomes among postpartum people. The learning collaborative included a webinar series and an affinity group. Kentucky, Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Montana and Wyoming participated in the action-oriented affinity group where teams designed and implemented a postpartum care quality improvement (QI) project in their state. CMS has featured the results from states that participated in the learning collaborative in this February 2024 highlights brief. See more information about the learning collaborative on this webpage. |