In the Room Where It Happens: A Recap of the 2022 AIM Conference
As a relatively new employee, I found the Alliance for Innovation in Maternal Health (AIM) conference beneficial in terms of learning more and connecting with others in the maternal health field. AIM is a national, cross-sector initiative designed to support best practices that make birth safer, improve maternal health outcomes, and save lives. I garnered more facts and statistics about pregnancy in this country, which will inform my work as the Foundation's Patient Education & Support Manager. I was also able to get a stronger sense of the efforts in different states to make maternity safer and more equitable. The conference focused on how we can better promote equitable care between race, socioeconomic status, location (urban vs. rural), and between patient and provider.
Connecting in person with the patient advocates from our MoMMAs Voices program was by far my favorite part. Our team brought four women with lived experiences, the "four Ts" - Tara Bristol-Rouse, Thaen Hardy, Tamela Milan-Alexander, and Tomeka Isaac - who had served as the faculty (the FaculTEE!) of our recent Community of Learning training program, which helped perinatal quality collaboratives better integrate patient-centric improvement processes. These four women represented different backgrounds, socioeconomic status, and locations, but they were all saying the same thing: "We appreciate the direction this field is headed, but we can do better quicker."Related Articles
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