New Jersey Maternal & Child Health Resources
Nurture New Jersey – Strategic Plan and Companion Document (2021)
Nurture NJ was launched in 2019 and is a statewide “initiative that aims to make New Jersey the safest place for women to give birth and raise a child, and to eliminate the state’s racial disparities.” There are three primary objectives: “1) Ensure all women are healthy and have access to care before pregnancy; 2) Build a safe, high-quality, equitable system of care and services for all women during prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum care; and 3) Ensure supportive community environments and contexts during every other period of a woman’s life so that the conditions and opportunities for health are always available.” There are nine specific action areas: “1) Build racial equity infrastructure and capacity; 2) Support community infrastructures for power-building and consistent engagement in decision-making; 3) Engage multiple sectors to achieve collective impact on health; 4) Shift ideology and mindsets to increase support for transformative action; 5) Strengthen and expand public policy to support conditions for health in New Jersey; 6) Generate and more widely disseminate data and information for improved decision-making; 7) Change institutional structures to accommodate innovation and transformative action; 8) Address the social determinants of health; and 9) Improve the quality of care and service delivery to individuals.”
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute – Maternity Action Plan: Sustainable Policy Change to Strengthen and Accelerate the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan (2022)
The Maternity Action Plan describes four fundamental policy-focused areas of work: “1) Build the workforce needed to achieve birth equity and quality; 2) Collect and use data to improve equity and quality; 3) Reform payment systems to drive high quality maternal and infant health; and 4) Improve community-based social supports.” One of the Workforce Policy Recommendations is the following: “Promote reforms to educate, recruit, and retain a more diverse MIH, including ongoing anti-racism education and training.”
New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Authority
The New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Authority (NJMIHIA) oversees the New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center (NJMIHIC) in Trenton. The NJMIHIA adopts recommendations designed to reduce maternal mortality, morbidity, and disparities in New Jersey. The NJMIHIA coordinates with a community advisory committee representing diverse community groups with relevant experience as providers or recipients of maternal, infant, and child health services. The NJMIHIC serves as an incubator for research and development, an academic and perinatal workforce training center, and as a data collaborative. Comprehensive clinical services are also offered to mothers before, during, and after pregnancy.
New Jersey Department of Health – Maternal and Child Health
Maternal and Child Health Services, through partnerships and collaborations with other agencies, works to improve access to health services and reduce disparities in health outcomes for mothers, expecting mothers, children and teens in New Jersey. Resources and services are offered to individuals and families, and critical research is performed to increase our knowledge and ability to serve these groups.
New Jersey Department of Health – Maternal and Child Health Consortia
The consortia are private non-profit organizations that are licensed and regulated by the New Jersey Department of Health as central service facilities. They include, as members, perinatal and pediatric providers, hospitals, consumers, and community-based agencies, including any group or individual with an interest in health services for families. The consortia’s primary functions are to provide prevention activities, consumer and professional education, total quality management, data analysis, infant and pediatric follow-up, coordination of perinatal/pediatric transport systems and the development of comprehensive perinatal/pediatric regional plans.
Partnership for Maternal & Child Health of Northern New Jersey
The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey (PMCHNNJ) is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health. The PMCHNNJ serves as the lead planning agency for maternal and child health services and provides support, education, and advocacy programs to eight counties in Northern New Jersey.
Central Jersey Family Health Consortium
CJFHC Inc. (CJFHC) is a private 501(c)3 Non-Profit licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health. CJFHC is part of a regionalized Maternal & Child Health System serving the six counties of Center Jersey. CJFHC’s mission is to promote an equitable and healthy future for families through services, advocacy, education, and collaboration.
The Cooperative
The Cooperative is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) coalition of healthcare professionals and consumers licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health as the maternal and child health consortium serving the seven-county region of South Jersey. The Cooperative’s activities are directed toward improving the health of pregnant and birthing individuals, infants and families and decreasing perinatal mortality and morbidity.
New Jersey Department of Health – New Jersey Maternal Data Center
The New Jersey Maternal Data Center (NJMDC) engages in research, data collection and analysis, and state-wide outreach collaboratives to end preventable morbidity, mortality, and racial disparities in New Jersey maternal care and improve health outcomes for birthing people and infants. A Maternal Health Hospital Report Card is developed, updated annually, and made available on the New Jersey Department of Health’s website. The NJMDC also shares data regarding maternal health and related outcomes with policy makers, consumers, and relevant stakeholders in New Jersey, through dissemination of data visualizations focused on the maternal health ecosystem and social determinants of health.