The mission of the Delaware Healthy Mother & Infant Consortium (DHMIC) is to provide statewide leadership and coordination of efforts to prevent infant mortality and to improve the health of women of childbearing age and infants throughout Delaware.
Browse through the resources shared during the quarterly meetings, including meeting minutes, agendas, presentations and other resources, below.
February 23, 2022
April 26, 2022 — Annual Summit
June 9, 2022
September 14, 2022
December 1, 2022
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
DHMIC Meeting Minutes 2/23/2022
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
DHMIC Meeting Minutes 9/9/2021
DHMIC Meeting Minutes 6/10/2021
DHMIC Meeting Minutes 3/3/2021
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Meeting Minutes
Meeting Agenda
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Meeting minutes
Meeting agenda
Logan Herring, Reach Riverside presentation
Logan Herring, Reach Riverside one-pager
Khaleel Hussaini, Reproductive Health presentation
MARCH 4, 2020
DHMIC Meeting Minutes
Healthy Mother, Healthy Babies 2.0 Learning Collaborative is comprised of the Healthy Women, Healthy Babies providers throughout Delaware, Children and Families First, Christiana Care Health Services, La Red Healthcare, Planned Parenthood of Delaware, St. Francis Tiny Steps and Westside Family Healthcare to meet and collaborate on initiatives to improve pre-conception, prenatal and post-conception care to women of reproductive age in Delaware to collaborate on efforts to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Delaware.
JUNE 10, 2020
Healthy Women Healthy Babies 2.0 Year 1 Review Presentation
Healthy Women Healthy Babies Mini Grantees Project Report Presentation
Chaired by Dr. David Paul
Focus is to examine the data and evidence of the health status of women in Delaware, particularly those in the 14- to 44-year-old age range and those with poor birth outcomes (e.g., premature birth, low birth weight). This group works to foster leadership, identify gaps in data, cultivate relationships, enhance provider knowledge, review findings, reframe postpartum/interconception care, enhance capacity for statewide quality improvement, and explore best practices to address risks.
AUGUST 13, 2021
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
DHMIC Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Workgroup Meeting Minutes 11/10/2021
MARCH 4, 2020
Led by Tiffany Chalk
This workgroup reports up to the Well Woman Committee.
In the U.S. Black women are disproportionately impacted dying at four times the rate of white women during pregnancy and childbirth. Black women are also twice as likely to suffer from life-threatening pregnancy related complications. Trends are similar for Delaware. Maternal mortality rates are on the rise as are risk factors for pregnancy-related complications such as obesity, pre-eclampsia, and high blood pressure. Their infant’s fair no better, dying at more than twice the rate of white infants.
Disparity gaps remain stubbornly persistent despite efforts to improve. A growing body of literature indicates structural racism is a major contributing factor to these disparities which until recently have been largely unexplored or even mentioned. There is a growing recognition more must be done if Delaware is to close its disparity gap.
The Black Maternal Health Workgroup is striving to bring increased awareness of the disparity gap for African American women and their infants by developing community-informed solution for closing the disparity gap and to understand the impact of structural racism of maternal and infant health disparities.
Standing Meeting Occurrence: Every 2nd Tuesday of the month
MARCH 8, 2022
Black Maternal Health Workgroup 3/8/2022 Meeting Minutes
APRIL 20, 2021
Black Maternal Health Workgroup 4/20/2021 Meeting Minutes
Chaired by Susan Noyes, RN, MSN and Tiffany Chalk
Focus is on a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to reproductive health and the health of women before, during, and after pregnancy — one that is woman-centered and clinician-engaged. The group functions to meet the diverse and often complex needs of reproductive-age women, particularly from more vulnerable populations, and works to foster leadership and information sharing, solicit voices of the consumer, encourage innovation, build awareness, promote reproductive life planning, and build workforce capacity.
Standing Meeting Occurrence: Every 3rd Tuesday of the month
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Well Woman Committee 10/19/2021 meeting notes
Well Woman Committee 10/19/2021 meeting agenda
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Well Woman Committee 9/21/2021 meeting minutes
Well Woman Committee 9/21/2021 meeting agenda
JUNE 15, 2021
Well Woman Committee 6/15/2021 meeting notes
Well Woman Committee 6/15/2021 meeting agenda
MAY 18, 2021
Well Woman Committee 5/28/2021 meeting minutes
MARCH 4, 2020
JANUARY 20, 2022
1/20/2022 Meeting Minutes
DECEMBER 16, 2021
12/16/2021 Meeting Minutes
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
11/18/2021 Meeting Minutes
OCTOBER 28, 2021
10/28/2021 Meeting Minutes
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
9/23/2021 Meeting Minutes
AUGUST 19, 2021
8/19/2021 Meeting Minutes
JULY 15, 2021
7/15/2021 Meeting Minutes
JUNE 17, 2021
6/17/2021 Meeting Minutes
MAY 21, 2021
5/21/2021 Meeting Minutes
APRIL 15, 2021
4/15/2021 Meeting Minutes
MARCH 18, 2021
3/18/2021 Meeting Minutes
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
2/18/2021 Meeting Minutes
JANUARY 28, 2021
1/28/21 Meeting Minutes
DECEMBER 17, 2020
12/17/21 Meeting Minutes
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
10/15/20 meeting minutes
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
9/17/20 meeting minutes
MAY 28, 2020
5/28/20 meeting minutes
APRIL 16, 2020
4/16/20 meeting minutes
MARCH 19, 2020
3/19/20 meeting minutes
Chaired by Rep. Melissa Minor Brown
Delaware Healthy Mother & Infant Consortium (DHMIC) Doula Work Group pursues the health of women, infants, and families through a lifecourse approach. Lifecourse is a way of thinking and doing. DHMIC’s approach includes planning WITH community as well as thinking holistically about women’s health and addressing intergenerational health. We support a continuum of services promoting optimal health from birth throughout the lifespan, from one generation to the next.
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
11/12/2021 Meeting Minutes
A sub-group of the SDOH Workgroup, this workgroup seeks to obtain permanent housing for homeless pregnant women in Delaware, for The Workgroup is in the Demonstration phase of creating the process and coordination among multiple partners to ensure housing and financial security for Delaware’s vulnerable women. The group will prioritize 15-30 pregnant and homeless women and work with HWHB 2.0 providers to identify these women. Women will then be referred to the Housing Authority to obtain housing and will also receive a Universal Benefit Income. The group is facilitated by Health Management Associates.
Standing Meeting Occurrence: Every 2nd Monday of the month
Co-chaired by Dr. Rita Landgraf and Rep. Melissa Minor Brown and facilitated by Health Management Associates
Focus is to support innovation and to spread evidence-based programs and place-based strategies to improve the social determinants of health and equity in maternal and infant health outcomes. This group works to collaborate with the community, offer space for shared learning with providers, review policies and programs to identify opportunities for change, evaluate best practices, identify health needs, and engage the faith-based community.
JULY 14, 2021
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
MARCH 4, 2020
