Building Bridges: Lessons from a Pittsburgh Partnership to Strengthen Systems of Care for Maternal Depression

Overview

Journal Rand Health Q

Specialty Health Services

Date 2017 Jan 14

PMID 28083173

Citations 1

Authors

Donna J Keyser

Ellen Burke Beckjord

Ray Firth

Sarah Frith

Susan L Lovejoy

Sanjith Pillai

Dana Schultz

Harold Alan Pincus

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Abstract

Between January 2007 and June 2010, members of the Allegheny County Maternal and Child Health Care Collaborative designed, implemented, and evaluated the Allegheny County Maternal Depression Initiative, a local system-change effort focused on increasing identification, referrals, and engagement in treatment as needed and appropriate for women at high risk for maternal depression. The collaborative was successful in improving key organizational and clinical processes related to the achievement of its aims. This article describes how and why the initiative was created, the processes through which it was implemented and evaluated, and the results and lessons learned. It concludes with recommendations in four areas for practice and policy change designed to expand and sustain the initiative's achievements: improve identification of maternal depression, enhance access to available resources and services, increase engagement in behavioral health treatment, and improve overall system performance.

Citing Articles

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PMID: 24073034 PMC: 3717694. DOI: 10.1007/s13142-011-0020-8.

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