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Readiness Resource Kit
Join our open office hours to connect directly with the AIM Data Team and TA Specialists. These sessions are designed to provide teams with personalized support and guidance—whether you have specific questions about AIM data collection and reporting, need help interpreting your data, or want to discuss broader programmatic needs.
Date and Time: August 21, 2025, at 1PM (EST)
Final Office Hours Session: August 29, 2025, at 1PM (EST)
Date & Time: August 7, 2025, from 1PM-2PM (EST)
Description: This session will provide an overview of AIM-developed REDCap projects. The session will cover key steps for importing the AIM REDCap project, navigating the customization features, and how to successfully export data entry for analysis
Session Recording: https://vimeo.com/1114294509
Date & Time: August 14, 2025, from 1PM-2PM (EST)
Description: This session will cover the AIM Data Center’s bulk export functionality in which the state team can download outcome, process, and structure measures data that have been submitted in the AIM Data Center. Using the downloaded data, state teams can create their own visualization for their internal analysis. This session will also include key AIM data resources to keep in mind as teams implement patient safety bundles.
Session Slide Deck: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/AIM-Data-Center-Refresher.pdf
Session Recording: https://vimeo.com/1114294612
Date & Time: August 28, 2025, from 1PM-2PM (EST)
Description: Visualizing data is an important element of quality improvement as it helps stakeholders clearly understand patterns in quality of care and opportunities for improvement. This session will guide state teams on pre-built visualizations for the AIM Data Center that focus on collaborative-wide data as well as hospital-level data to allow collaboratives to quickly see where gains can be made.
Session Slide Deck: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/AIM-Tableau-Dashboard-Template-Visualizing-Your-AIM-Patient-Safety-Bundle.pdf
Session Recording: https://vimeo.com/1114294752
AIM Tableau Dashboard Templates & Associated Files: https://saferbirth.org/data/august-2025-transition-tableau-dashboard/
AIM Technical Assistance (TA) Center is excited host its first Obstetric (OB) Readiness Learning Sprint this summer. This five-part series will provide an overview of topics related to planning and assessment for OB readiness. Participants will gain insight on pre-hospital readiness planning, simulations for emergency staff, assessment practices, and engaging rural or resource-limited communities in OB readiness.
Each live session will offer 1 hour of continuing education credit through the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health.
Attendance at the event will be recorded on the virtual meeting platform and at least 60 minutes of participation and the completion of an evaluation for the session will be required to receive 1 credit hour.
Please see below for more details:
This activity is approved by the Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health for 1 continuing education contact hours, including 0 hours of pharmacology content. NPWH Activity Number 25-12-01
The Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, is accredited as a provider of continuing by the California State Board of Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13411
Attendance at the event will be recorded on the virtual meeting platform and at least 60 minutes of participation and the completion of an evaluation for the session will be required to receive 1 credit hour.
Speakers:
Learning objectives:
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Date & Time: June 25, 2025, from 3:00 – 4:15pm ET
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11821707
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/Session-1_OB-Care-in-Rural-Environments-Master-Slide-Deck.pptx
This activity is approved by the Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health for 1 continuing education contact hours, including 0 hours of pharmacology content. NPWH Activity Number 25-12-02
The Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, is accredited as a provider of continuing by the California State Board of Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13411
Attendance at the event will be recorded on the virtual meeting platform and at least 60 minutes of participation and the completion of an evaluation for the session will be required to receive 1 credit hour.
Speakers:
Learning objectives:
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Date & Time: July 9, 2025, from 3:00 – 4:15pm ET
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11821707
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/Session-2_Planning-and-Assessment-for-OB-Emergency-Readiness-Master-Slide-Deck.pptx
This activity is approved by the Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health for 1 continuing education contact hours, including 0 hours of pharmacology content. NPWH Activity Number 25-12-03
The Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, is accredited as a provider of continuing by the California State Board of Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13411
Attendance at the event will be recorded on the virtual meeting platform and at least 60 minutes of participation and the completion of an evaluation for the session will be required to receive 1 credit hour.
Speakers:
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Date & Time: July 23, 2025, from 3:00 – 4:15pm ET
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11821707
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/OB-Readiness-Learning-Sprint-Session-3-Pre-Hospital-Emergency-Care-Master-Deck.pptx
This activity is approved by the Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health for 1 continuing education contact hours, including 0 hours of pharmacology content. NPWH Activity Number 25-12-04
The Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, is accredited as a provider of continuing by the California State Board of Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13411
Attendance at the event will be recorded on the virtual meeting platform and at least 60 minutes of participation and the completion of an evaluation for the session will be required to receive 1 credit hour.
Speakers:
Learning objectives:
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Date & Time: August 6, 2025, from 3:00 – 4:15pm ET
This activity is approved by the Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health for 1 continuing education contact hour, including 0 hours of pharmacology content. NPWH Activity Number 25-12-05.
The Continuing Education Approval Program of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, is accredited as a provider of continuing by the California State Board of Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13411
Attendance at the event will be recorded on the virtual meeting platform and at least 60 minutes of participation and the completion of an evaluation for the session will be required to receive 1 credit hour.
Speakers:
Learning objectives:
At the end of this webinar participants will be able to:
Date & Time: August 13, 2025, from 3:00 – 4:15pm ET
Andrea Augustine has been a sexual and reproductive health educator, administrator, and advocate for 10+ years. She holds an MPH in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University and a BA in International Relations from Tufts University. Currently based in the Greater Metropolitan Washington area, her career spans across multiple sectors as well global and local settings. Andrea is also a near-miss mom, who survived an obstetric hemorrhage in 2022. Her personal and professional experiences serve as her motivation to advance reproductive justice wherever possible.
CheyAnne has been practicing nursing for ten years beginning in adult inpatient trauma services with the majority of her career spent in Women’s Healthcare. She practiced as an L&D nurse for 8 years, moving from the bedside to simultaneously serving as the Women’s Health Educator, Clinical Coordinator, Maternal Program Manager, and Interim Director of Women’s and Children’s. She now serves as the Director of Clinical Excellence and Operations at Titus Regional Medical Center taking the quality work she implemented in the women’s service line to other service lines within the organization. She received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing and Masters of Science in Nursing Education at The University of Texas at Tyler and is currently board certified in Inpatient Obstetrics as well as Obstetric and Neonatal Quality and Safety. She serves as a Maternal Level of Care Surveyor for ACOG, TexasAIM faculty member for Sepsis Initiative and in past for the Hypertension initiative, and has spoke on behalf of maternal best care practices on a number of platforms.
Colleen Reilly is the President and CEO of The Reilly Group (TRG), a public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in communications, public affairs, and health. Having worked in senior positions in government, non-profit organizations, media, and the private sector, she uses this multi-dimensional experience to develop and implement collective impact initiatives and programs with the TRG team that have resulted in developing policy, building partnerships and collaborations, increasing capacity, expanding education, and achieving quality improvement. Ms. Reilly is the architect of and serves as the lead for the Mind the Gap National Initiative to ensure maternal and maternal mental health are national priorities. The Initiative includes a coalition of 30+ national organization partners and state policy teams working together to improve health access and outcomes. Ms. Reilly is a recognized expert on maternal, women’s and mental health issues and has worked with groups, coalitions, and teams at the community, state and national level. Prior to founding The Reilly Group, Ms. Reilly served in senior positions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service Office of Women’s Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Mental Health Association.
Dr. Catherine Albright is an associate professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. Her clinical and research interests are in high-risk maternal care, especially related to sepsis in pregnancy as well as cardio- obstetrics. She developed and validated the Sepsis in Obstetrics Score, the first disease-severity score developed and validated in pregnancy. She co-directs the UW Cardio-OB program and has multiple ongoing research projects related to this patient population. She currently is involved in the Washington State Maternal Mortality Review Panel as well as local and regional perinatal quality efforts. She has been especially focused on ensuring that UW has a robust maternal early warning system for early recognition of maternal decompensation.
Grace Lim Bio: Dr. Lim is a board-certified obstetric (OB) anesthesiologist and physician scientist who is passionate about eliminating pain and suffering in special populations, optimizing perioperative medication use, and creating innovative and personalized approaches to care. She accomplishes these goals using a mix of clinical and translational approaches. Her methods focus on individualized and population-based approaches to gain a holistic understanding of a health problem from both a population and personalized perspective.
Dr. Lim’s clinical practice and research work are dedicated to improving pain management and post-birth recovery by identifying safe and effective therapies. These efforts include the widespread implementation of enhanced recovery after cesarean protocols, nitrous oxide labor analgesia, hemorrhage bundles, and postpartum analgesia bundles across UPMC maternity hospitals.
Allison Kight brings her expertise and dedication to promoting the health and wellbeing of others in her role as Manager of Social Impact Projects for The Reilly Group. With years of experience working with federal and state governments, and professional, advocacy, and community organizations, she is a talented coalition builder and excels at forging connections between a wide range of partners. Her specialties include collective impact work and removing barriers to care and treatment through unified action with a wide range of stakeholders. Allison has helped state organizations achieve their health policy goals through coaching, facilitation, and expertise.
Dr. Alison Haddock is a board-certified emergency physician and tenured Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine with appointments in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Department of Education, Innovation and Technology, and the Center for Ethics and Health Policy. She was recently elected President-Elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians and will serve as President starting in October 2024. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Duke University and MD from Cornell Medical College, and completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of Michigan. She served as the emergency medicine/ACEP representative to the ACOG Pregnancy & Heart Disease Presidential Task Force and subsequently as co-chair of the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) Patient Safety Bundle: Cardiac Conditions in Obstetrical Care.
Dr. Amber Weiseth, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB is a Research Scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director for the Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) at Ariadne Labs. In this role, she leads a research and advocacy portfolio focused on improving dignity and safety in childbirth and reducing racial and ethnic disparities. Amber has been an obstetric nurse for 20 years, specializing in maternal-child health, quality improvement, and systems innovation. Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Amber served as Assistant Director for Maternal-Infant Health Initiatives at the Washington State Hospital Association where she led safety and quality improvement in the state’s birthing hospitals.
Barbara O’Brien is the Director of the Oklahoma Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative (OPQIC). Her work with OPQIC supports achieving a vision of a culture of safety, excellence, and equity in perinatal care in Oklahoma. This is achieved through public-private partnerships to implement best practices for the care of women and infants using quality improvement science.
AIM Technical Assistance (TA) Center is excited host its first Sustainability Community of Learning (COL) for its participating states, jurisdictions, and hospital teams. The focus of this COL is to offer expert guidance on sustaining and maintaining quality improvement initiatives, including AIM patient safety bundles. By fostering a collaborative environment and knowledge-sharing, this COL aims to provide participants with actionable strategies, tools, and best practices to ensure long-term impact and drive continuous improvement to achieve meaningful outcomes.
In this session, participants will explore the foundations of planning and sustaining Patient Safety Bundle (PSB) initiatives to ensure lasting improvements in care quality. We’ll define what it means to “sustain” QI initiatives, highlighting essential elements that contribute to long-term success. We’ll also look at practical ways to help hospital teams overcome challenges, ensuring consistent care and promoting ongoing improvement.
Date & Time: March 21, 2025, from 3:00PM-4:30PM (EST)
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/1086846932
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/Master_SlideDeck_PlanningForQIWithSustainabilityInMind-2.pdf
In this session, participants will learn approaches to optimize stakeholder support for sustaining PSB initiatives. We will learn who should be engaged from hospital & leadership teams and strategies for gaining buy-in. We will also explore best practices to communicate about the rationale for sustaining PSB projects and the roles/responsibilities of those who will be involved in sustainability.
Date & Time: April 16, 2025, from 1:00PM-2:30PM (EST)
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/1086846313
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/Master_SlideDeck_Sustainability-Champions_Engaging-Stakeholders-in-Sustainability-Success-3.pdf
In this session, participants will explore considerations for maintaining ongoing staff training and communication. We will review important elements of supporting staff through change and sustainment of gains, including regular meetings, continued education, and onboarding education for new staff. We will also strategies for maintaining staff motivation for PSB sustainment.
Date & Time: May 21, 2025, from 2:00PM – 3:30PM (EST)
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/1086842804
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/Maintaining-Changes-in-Practice-and-Processes-through-Staff-Support-Training-and-Collaboration.pdf
In this session, participants will discuss considerations and responsive strategies for responding to policy or guideline changes that may affect clinical care delivery. We will also cover best practices for communicating new changes and their impacts on PSB project sustainability.
Date & Time: June 20, 2025, from 2:00PM-3:30PM (EST)
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/1098506518
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp content/uploads/MasterSlideDeck_Sustaining_the_Gains_Amidst_Change_in_Policy_and_the_Healthcare_Landscape-2.pdf
In this session, participants will explore how to manage and allocate resources for sustainability such as personnel, funding, data systems, and training materials. We will cover resource identification, scaling, and responsiveness to resource shortages. We will also discuss contingency plans for shifts in resources such as changes in funding and obstetric unit closures.
Date & Time: July 17, 2025, from 1:00PM – 2:30PM (EST)
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/1102316058
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/Session5_Strategic_Resource_Management_Ensuring_Sustainability_in_Healthcare_Implementation-1.pdf
In this session, participants will discuss principles of data management & analysis for PSB sustainability. We will learn about selecting priority measures for continued collection in the sustainability period, strategies for tracking ongoing sustainment of PSB elements, and processes for responding to shifting data trends. We will also discuss processes for reporting data back to hospital teams and engaging in collaborative learning.
Date & Time: August 20, 2025, from 1:00PM – 2:30PM (EST)
Recording Link: https://vimeo.com/1111788860
Session Slides: https://saferbirth.org/wp-content/uploads/Session6_Data_Driven_Strategies_for_Monitoring_Sustainability.pdf
This educational offering will provide an overview of common QI data collection platforms used by AIM teams and functionalities to consider when selecting a QI data collection platform.
This educational offering will provide strategies and considerations for prioritizing data collection for AIM patient safety bundle implementation, with a focus on accommodations that can be made for lower-resourced settings. Consideration will also be made to adapting QI data collection in response to emerging barriers and needs.
How do we find meaning for quality improvement with small counts of data? Do we need statistical significance to drive practical change? This educational offering will explore these questions while providing strategies and tools for using QI charts and other visualizations in lower-volume clinical settings.
This educational offering will highlight strategies AIM state teams and participating facilities can use to integrate key data elements into the Electronic Medical Record to support process improvement.
This educational offering will discuss possible criteria and practical strategies for chart abstraction, as well as best practices for multidisciplinary chart reviews in inpatient settings for quality improvement.
This educational offering will review data visualization best practices for disaggregated data, with a focus on visualizations that are relevant for quality improvement in inpatient settings.
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