Improving access to maternal care and mitigating long-standing disparities is a focus that extends throughout Ascension’s clinical and community impact teams. Senior Vice President–Chief Community Impact Officer, Dr. Stacy Garrett-Ray, recently shared how Ascension is advancing maternal health outcomes through sustained systemwide investment and data-driven care redesign in an interview with Becker's Hospital Review.
Dr. Garrett-Ray emphasized Ascension’s Maternal Navigation program, which embeds navigators into the care process to support high-risk mothers with transportation, nutrition, childcare, and breastfeeding needs. She also noted that Ascension is focused on systemwide clinical goals to reduce severe obstetrical complications, both across its overall population and in communities identified as medium to high risk on the Social Vulnerability Index.
Read the full story here: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/patient-safety-outcomes/how-ascension-is-improving-maternal-outcomes-at-scale/
