Committees/Projects

  • CMQCC Executive Committee: Determines policy and direction for the collaborative.
  • CA-PAMR Committee:  (California Pregnancy-Related and Pregnacy-Associated Maternal Mortality Review Committee): first ever multi-specialty review of CA maternal deaths looking for causes, improvement opportunities, and drivers of disparity.
  • MQIP Committee: (Maternal Quality Improvment Panel): Oversees all aspects of the hospital-based quality improvement activities of CMQCC, including building QI capacity, selection of improvement topics and the creation of taskforces to develop specfic tools for improvement.
  • Hemorrhage Taskforce: The first CMQCC quality improvement taskforce charged with developing a comprehensive and practical set of tools to use in every L&D unit in California to reduce the morbidity of obstetric hemorrhage.
  • LMCQI Project: (Local Maternal Care Quality Improvement Project): a new project funded by CA-DPH for Local Health Jurisdictions to develop pilot projects for the improvement of materity outcomes.
  • MIT Committee: (Maternal Information Technology Committee): has the task to standardize OB terminology in all the new electronic medical records being installed in California over the next 5 years.
  • Data Center: Collects, coordinates and matches maternity data from many state sources (including vital statistics and discharge diagnoses) and in turn provides them to other CMQCC committees for use in quality improvement.

Affiliated Projects

  • MQI (Maternal Quality Indicators Project): based at UCLA and headed by Michael Lu, MD, MPH, this project has been working to develop maternal quality measures.
  • California Maternal Standards of Care Project:

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