Promoting Maternal Health in Texas Podcast
Extensive review of maternal morbidity and mortality in Texas provides insight into leading health risks as well as opportunities to prevent pregnancy-related complications and death. In the following two podcasts, experts from the Department of State Health Services review current data and initiatives and provide guidelines for how health-care providers can promote healthy outcomes for Texas mothers and babies.
Texas Health Steps
Promoting Maternal Health in Texas: Current Data and Initiatives
Texas Health Steps
Promoting Maternal Health in Texas: A Call to Action
Dr. John Hellerstedt, MD
Commissioner
Texas Department of State Health Services
Dr. Hellerstedt has served as DSHS commissioner since January 2016 and is a leading spokesman for public health issues in the state. Dr. Hellerstedt is a long-time Texas pediatrician who has been chief medical officer at the Seton Family of Hospitals and vice president of medical affairs at Dell Children’s Medical Center, both in Austin. He previously served the state as medical director for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Manda Hall, MD
Associate Commission of Community Health Improvement
Texas Department of State Health Services
Dr. Hall is the state’s point person for promoting maternal health. She is experienced in internal medicine, pediatrics, and allergy and immunology and serves as a faculty member of the DSHS Preventive Medicine and Public Health Residency Program. She previously served as medical director of the Title V Maternal and Child Health program and as director of the Children with Special Health Care Needs program.
Recommended Courses
Preconception Health: Screening and Intervention
Integrate best practices for preconception health care and counseling into preventive medical checkups.
CREDIT HOURS: 1.25 CE
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Prenatal Health: Screening and Intervention
Integrate best practices for preconception health care and counseling into preventive medical checkups.
CREDIT HOURS: 1.25 CE
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Integrating Postpartum Depression Screening into Routine Infant Medical Checkups
Maternal and child health are intricately linked. This tutorial explores the impact of postpartum depression and provides guidance about how Texas Health Steps providers can receive separate reimbursement for conducting maternal postpartum depression screening during an infant’s regular checkup.
CREDIT HOURS: 0.00 CE
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Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force Report, September 2018
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