ALARISE MATERNAL CARE COORDINATION PROJECT
Alabama-Resources Information Support Empowerment
The West Central Alabama AHEC’s Alabama Resources Information Support and Empowerment (AlaRISE) Project, in collaboration with the newly formed maternal care subcommittee of the Southwest Alabama Healthcare Collaborative (SAHC), will implement a proven, coordinated approach involving a multi-sector intervention to improve and increase access to care for pregnant women and new mothers during and after pregnancy in the Delta Region. This project will cover Alabama Delta Region Counties: Butler, Clarke, Hale, Marengo and Monroe Counties.
The goal of this project is to take sustainable, evidence-based practices and implement similar practices to address maternal health in the Delta Region
The primary anticipated outcome of the project is to address maternal prenatal and perinatal care, improve and expand care coordination service and improve and expand access for the target counties through coordinated activities.
Women of childbearing age, pregnant women and new mothers are the primary target population for the project. The SAHC will use the Care Coordination Model, strategies and other evidence-based and/or promising-practices to include to enhance and expand the planning, delivery, and access to perinatal services in the target Delta Region counties; identify and address prenatal risk factors and barriers to providing maternal health care in the region; and develop and implement deliberate and sustainable strategies of care coordination.
West Central Alabama AHEC Senior Program Manager, Adrian Collier, serves as the Project Director. For more information, please contact her at adrian.collier@wcaahec.org
The goals of the AlaRISE Maternal Care Coordination Project are as follows:
Goal 1: Use care coordination strategies to enhance and expand access to perinatal services in the Delta Region through a strong, diverse network of entities that represent the spectrum of care during and after pregnancy
Goal 2: Utilize evidence-based, promising practices and/or value-based care model(s) in the planning and delivery of perinatal services
Goal 3: Identify barriers to providing maternal health care in the region and strategies for addressing such barriers
Goal 4: Develop and implement deliberate and sustainable strategies of care coordination into policies, procedures, staffing, services, and communication systems (including but not limited to billing for appropriate services and partnering private and public payers).
West Central Alabama AHEC Senior Program Manager, Adrian Collier, serves as the Project Director. For more information, please contact her at adrian.collier@wcaahec.org
The 2024-2028 AlaRISE Maternal Care Coordination Program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling approximately$1.8M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.