POST-BIRTH Warning Signs Initiative
POST-BIRTH women are at risk for potential life-threatening medical complications that can occur after hospital discharge.
In 2020, TIPQC worked with AWHONN to distribute the POST-BIRTH Warning signs to every delivery hospital, maternal outpatient clinics, doulas, and midwives in the state. This also included training for 10 nurses per hospital, on when a patience should seek immediate medical attention, a tool kit and POST-BIRTH patient education in discharge planning. Materials are in over 23 languages.
This training provided provider & patient education regarding the dangerous POST-BIRTH warning signs and needed treatment, thus increasing the number of women who recognize potential life-threatening POST-BIRTH warning signs that can occur after hospital discharge and educating them on when to obtain immediate medical attention. Each participating hospital developed a standard approach to postpartum discharge education provided by nurses during the hospital stay. Online education on maternal morbidity and mortality, how to deliver consistent messages about warning signs, a discharge education checklist, and a handout for all mothers to take home were included in the training.
In 2021 – POST BIRTH Warning Signs Training and materials were purchased for 46 hospitals, and TIPQC printed 82,800 magnets for hospitals to utilize at discharge. Those hospitals included:
Ascension St. Thomas Midtown
Ascension St. Thomas River Park Hospital
Ascension St. Thomas Rutherford
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Tipton
Baptist Memorial Hospital – Union City
Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Blount Memorial Hospital
Bristol Regional Medical Center
Choices Memphis
Cumberland Medical Center
Erlanger Health System
Erlanger Medical Center
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Greenville Community Hospital
Hardin Medical Center
Henry County Medical Center
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Johnson City Medical Center
LeConte Medical Center
Maury Regional Medical Center
Methodist Healthcare South Hospital
Methodist LeBonheur Germantown
Methodist Medical Center
Morristown-Hamblen Medical Center
Nashville General Hospital
Newport Medical Center
North Knoxville Medical Center
Parkridge Medical Center
Parkwest Medical Center
Regional One Health
Riverview Regional Medical Center
St. Francis Hospital, Bartlett
St. Francis Hospital, Memphis
Sumner Regional Medical Center
Tennova Healthcare – Clarksville
TriStar centennial Women’s and Children’s
TriStar Horizon Medical Center
TriStar Summit Medical Center
University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vanderbilt Center for Women at NorthCrest
Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital
Vanderbilt Wilson County
West Tennessee Healthcare, Dyersburg Hospital
West Tennessee Healthcare
Williamson Medical Center
In 2022 – TIPQC purchased 65,390 Magnets for hospitals to utilize for patient discharge, including adding the hospital’s logo if requested.
From 2021 to 2023– Hospitals were able to complete the training and received a banner highlighting the patient education for the hospital. 283 AWHONN Post Birth Warning Signs Learning Seats used by 46 hospitals. An additional webinar with AWHONN national experts was held on January 19, 2022. In total, 283 AWHONN Post Birth Warning Signs Learning Seats used by 43 hospitals. This training was extended for 2023 with the following hospitals completing the training and receiving a hospital banner which also included patient education:
- Baptist Memorial Hospital – Tipton
- Baptist Memorial Hospital – Union City
- Bristol Regional Medical Center
- Erlanger Medical Center
- Erlanger Children’s Hospital
- Hardin Medical Center
- Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
- Newport Medical Center
- Regional One Health
- Ascension St. Thomas Midtown
- TriStar Northcrest Medical Center
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- West Tennessee Healthcare Volunteer Hospital
In 2023 –37 Hospitals received an additional 58,495 magnets (English, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin)
2024 –Magnets were purchased and distributed to 71,295 pregnant and postpartum women in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Mandarin.
This is a total of 277,980 magnets distributed to 37 hospitals and over 50 doulas.