EACH YEAR the individuals and groups involved with WAPC make suggestions for activities to address contemporary perinatal issues. These suggestions are submitted in several ways, including notes with membership renewals, direct contacts with members of the Board of Directors or staff, periodic meetings of the WAPC regional organizations, ongoing planning of the WAPC statewide program committees, collaborative efforts with other organizations, and negociations with potential funding agencies. The purpose of this agenda is to define the activities that WAPC intends to carry out between January 1 and December 31, 2009. All activities lead to improved perinatal health outcomes of women, infants, and their families --the purpose of WAPC.
WAPC MISSION AND VISION
The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care is the premier multidisciplinary association providing leadership, advocacy, and education to improve perinatal health outcomes of women, infants, and their families.
Our mission is to improve perinatal outcomes by:
• Leading collaborative efforts that promote, develop, and coordinate systems of perinatal care • Advocating for perinatal health • Providing and supporting education and information exchange that focuses on the continuum of perinatal care • Valuing and engaging the talented and diverse perinatal health care community
Preconception Care
• Promote the use of the WAPC Becoming a Parent™ materials, including the video prepared for the 2007 preconception summit. • Develop at least one new Planning for Pregnancy information sheet. • Develop resource(s) to support preconception care for men. • Promote preconception care for all populations. • Review and update the recommendations for Laboratory Testing During Pregnancy, 3rd Edition. • Make resources about the use of antidepressants in pregnancy available to providers and consumers. • Conduct educational sessions for health care providers about the care and treatment of women with unipolar depression.
Peripartum Care
• Revise the fetal monitoring CD to support the revised NICHD recommendations released in late 2008. • Make available the revised fetal monitoring manuals for both learners and instructors, as well as case studies that can be used for enhanced learning. • Develop educational materials for providers and consumers to support a reduction in cesarean births.
Infant Health Care and Family Support
• Promote the use of Baby Steps and Pasitos de Bebé and the Web-based version of NICU Babies in the Community. • Form collaborative relationships to address issues related to methadone and its impact on mothers, infants, and families. • Promote the availability of consumer-focused infant temperature FAQs on the WAPC Web site.
Perinatal Data
• Promote the use of PeriData.Net®, a Web-based perinatal database, for quality improvement. • Work with government and private agencies to assure the availability and adequacy of perinatal data. • Work with the Wisconsin Hospital Association to select perinatal measures to be reported through PeriData.Net® to CheckPoint. • Support birth hospitals in their efforts to collect and share data about birth processes and outcomes. • Develop additional modules for PeriData.Net®, such as a newborn/NICU module.
Perinatal Nutrition
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Continue to use the WAPC Web site to provide information about the basics of breastfeeding. • Distribute and promote the use of a nutritional discharge plan for infants in the NICU.
Professional and Consumer Education
• Support efforts to prevent preterm birth. • Continue to disseminate a list of resources on secondhand smoke, SIDS, and perinatal depression. • Conduct a fetal monitoring workshop at the 2009 WAPC Annual Conference. • Sponsor the 39th WAPC Statewide Annual Conference on April 26-28, 2009, at the Country Springs Hotel in Waukesha, WI. Begin planning the 40th WAPC Annual Conference at the Kalahari Waterpark Resort Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells, WI. • Continue to develop, revise, and post self-study modules on the WAPC Web site. • Use the WAPC/Perinatal Foundation Web site, as well as print and electronic media, to make provider and consumer information available. • Promote education about perinatal mood disorders nationally and internationally. • Continue to promote the role of fathers in perinatal health.
Systems of Care
• Participate in Wisconsin’s maternal and fetal/infant mortality review processes. • Obtain information about the levels of care that birth hospitals provide that mirror the levels proposed by the AAP. Make this information available on the WAPC Web site. • Promote evidence-based strategies to decrease disparities in perinatal outcomes
Working with Government and Other Partners
• Support programs that make quality perinatal care accessible to all women of childbearing age and their families. • Continuously monitor, advocate, and educate about perinatal care issues that the state legislature and state administrative agencies are considering. • Build and strengthen the relationship with the Perinatal Foundation, through joint programming, the Liaison Working Group, and the Memorandum of Understanding. • Satisfy the terms and conditions of contracts with private, federal, and state agencies. • Continue affiliation with the Wisconsin DHS; Community Health Charities; Medical College of Wisconsin; University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health; March of Dimes; Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians; Wisconsin Chapter of the American College of Nurse Midwives; Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists—WI Section; National Perinatal Association; and Postpartum Support International.
Organizational Development
• Implement new approaches to recruiting and retaining WAPC members. • Provide a venue for people from various perspectives to address issues in a spirit of respect and collaboration. • Assure the financial and organizational health of WAPC. • Maintain timely communication with WAPC members and others interested in providing perinatal care in Wisconsin through the print and electronic WAPC newsletter, PeriScope; the WAPC/Perinatal Foundation Web site; email; and the WAPC Local Contact Network. WAPC staff will continue to act as a central point of contact to respond to individuals' inquiries.
WAPC Statewide Office
Phone: 608-417-6060; Fax: 608-417-6089
Email:
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