CMQCC News

  • Presentations, publications, significant events, awards, etc (short description of the audience/conference and the presentation) 
  • Highlights of committee meetings as a way to keep everyone in the loop 

March 2008

3.7  Invited Plenary Presentation:  "Maternal Morbidity and Mortality:  A Call to Action!", Coalition for Improving Maternity Services Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.  (Debra Bingham, MS, RN) 

3.6  Invited Day Long Workshop:  "Every Change Needs A Champion", Coalition for Improving Maternity Services Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.  (Debra Bingham, MS, RN)

3.4  Presentation:  "Quality Improvement Opportunities for Maternity Care:  California's Innovative Approach", Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Annual Conference, Alexandria, VA.  (Elliott Main, MD, Debra Bingham, MS, RN, Amy Godecker, PhD) 

3.3 Invited Participants at the National Quality Forum's first Perinatal Steering Committee Meeting (to determine national quality measures for perinatal medicine), Washington, D.C. (Elliott Main, MD and Debra Bingham, MS, RN)

February 2008

2.7  Invited Presentation:  "CMQCC Update",  Orange County Perinatal Committee, Orange County, CA.  (Debra Bingham)

January 2008

1.24  Invited Plenary Presentation:  "California Maternal Morbidity and Mortality:  We All Have Work to Do!", Perinatal Potpourri:  Reaching Out and Looking Forward, MCCPOP 28th Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA. (Elliott Main, MD and Debra Bingham, MS, RN)

1.7  Elliott Main, MD is quoted and the work of CMQCC is mentioned in the USA Today article on the rising rates of cesarean sections.  http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-01-07-csections_N.htm

December 2007

12.12  Invited Presentation:  "Large-Scale Quality Improvment in Obstetrics" at the 31st Annual Meeting for the Collège National des Gynécologues et Obstétriciens Français, Séminaire AUDIPOG L’Évaluation des Pratiques Professionnelles: de la Théorie à la Pratique. Paris, FR  (Elliott Main, MD)

12.12  Presentation:  "California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review: From Surveillance to Quality Improvement", 13th Annual, CDC, Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (MCH-EPI) Conference, "Making Methods and Practive Matter for Women, Children and Families" Atlanta, GA (Amy Godecker, PhD and Debra Bingham, MS, RN)

November 2007

11.16  Presentation: "CMQCC Update" at Kaiser So. California Regional Perinatal Leadership Meeting (Debra Bingham, MS RN)

11.15  Presentation: "Maternal Mortality: a Call to Action, CMQCC Update", March of Dimes Valley Division 3rd Annual Perinatal Conference, Modesto, CA (Debra Bingham, MS RN)

11.08  Participant:  Steering Committee for Childbirth Connection 90th Anniversary National Conference on Maternal Quality (Debra Bingham, MS RN)

11.06  Presentation:  Perinatal Summit , Sacramento, CA (Debra Bingham, MS, RN) 

11.01  CMQCC is invited to join National Quality Forum (NQF), the designated organization to determine national quality measures (and who are about to recommend perinatal measures!)

October 2007 

10.30  Presentations:  2nd National Preconception Conference:  "Honoring Women's Lives:   " (Amy Godecker, PhD and Debra Bingham, MS RN) and  (Elliott Main, MD)

10.17  Presentation:  California Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Action meeting, Sacramento, CA (Amy Godecker, PhD and Debra Bingham, MS, RN)  

10.16  Presentation:  HRSA Meeting in Arlington, D.C (Amy Godecker, PhD, Debra Bingham, MS RN, and Elliott Main, MD)

10.11  Oral Presenation:  Pacific Coast OB GYN Society, Lake Las Vegas, NV (Elliott Main, MD)

10.04  Presentation: "CMQCC Overview", PAC/LAC Regional Meeting in Van Nuys (Elliott Main, MD and Debra Bingham, MS RN)

September 2007 

9.28  Two national leaders in OB Anesthesia join CA-PAMR Committee. Drs. Sheila Cohen, MB, ChB, FRCA and Patricia A. Dailey, MD

9.26  Presentation:  LMCQI Pilot Project at RPPC State meeting, San Francisco, CA (Debra Bingham, MS, RN)

9.24  Participant:  MIHA Advisory Committee, Sacramento, CA (Debra Bingham, MS, RN)  

9.07  Presentation:  "Helping Hospitals Change", Annual Lamaze International Conference, Phoenix, AZ (Debra Bingham, MS, RN)

Guest Editorial:  Journal of Perinatal Education, "Every Change Needs A Champion" by Debra Bingham, MS, RN

August 2007 

8.14  Presentation:  HRSA/MCH Bureau Title V Grant, San Francisco, CA. (Elliott Main, MD and Debra Bingham, MS, RN) 

July 2007

7.10  Participant:  Organizational representative at the 15th Annual Liaison Network Forum at The Joint Commission's Central Office in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. (Debra Bingham, MS, RN)

May 2007

 5.23 & 24   Participant:  Institute for Healthcare Improvement Perinatal Community of Practice conference in Boston, MA (Debra Bingham, MS, RN) 

 5.22 & 23   Participant and Presenter:  First March of Dimes Big 5 Summit (Elliott Main, MD)