NEWS RELEASE
MICHIGAN ALLIANCE ON MATERNAL HEALTH
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The Michigan Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (MI AIM) recently announced designations for hospitals dedicated to improving maternal safety with high quality and skilled physicians and caregivers. MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena earned the top platinum designation. Gold designations were awarded to the MyMichigan Medical Centers in Alma, Midland and the Sault. MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch received a bronze award.
The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) is a national data-driven maternal safety and quality improvement initiative based on proven implementation approaches to improving maternal safety and outcomes in the U.S. The purpose of the designation awards from MI AIM is to highlight an organization’s level of participation with the program to improve quality and safety in labor and delivery units.
The criteria for designation in 2023 included implementing safety protocols in the following areas: reduction of primary C-section, obstetric hemorrhage, severe hypertension and maternal sepsis. Data for 2023 is presented monthly, and the designations were awarded in May 2024.
“The MI AIM designations are representative of the commitment our maternity teams have for providing excellent care to patients and their families across our Maternity Centers,” said Tonia Vanwieren, R.N., director of maternity services, MyMichigan Health. “At MyMichigan, we have a family-centered approach to maternity care. Our nurses, physicians and other medical professionals work together to ensure families have a positive, safe birth experience.”
In addition, prioritizing the safety of mom and baby, MyMichigan Maternity Centers offer comfort and support to all involved. Highly skilled and caring nurses assist physicians with vaginal births and births that require additional expertise, such as twins, preterm deliveries, cesarean sections and induced labor. Member locations have specialized childbirth units where labor, delivery and recovery take place in the same room. They also maintain a proactive pain-management philosophy, offer infant nutrition and lactation support, and have a family-friendly visiting policy.
Those interested in more information on maternity services available with MyMichigan Health may visit www.mymichigan.org/maternity.
MyMichigan Health, a non-profit health system headquartered in Midland, Michigan, is a leader in providing award-winning, high-quality care to the 26-counties it serves. With Medical Centers in Alma, Alpena, Clare, Gladwin, Midland, Mt. Pleasant, Saginaw*, Sault Ste. Marie, Standish*, Tawas* and West Branch, MyMichigan also has affiliations with Medical Centers in St. Ignace* and Mackinac Island.* MyMichigan Health provides a full continuum of care across a wide array of settings, including urgent care centers, home health, virtual care, as well as medical offices in more than 80 specialties and subspecialties including cardiology, family medicine, hematology/oncology, neurosciences, orthopedics, pediatrics, vascular surgery, and more. MyMichigan Health demonstrates its commitment to the future of medicine by partnering with leading institutions to offer medical education programs that train medical students, physicians, nurse practitioner and physician assistant students, nursing students and other clinical experts for our region. Recognized by Forbes in 2022 and 2023 as one of ‘America’s Best Employers by State,’ MyMichigan is a major employer in all of the areas it serves. In fact, its more than 13,800 employees, volunteers, health care providers and other personnel work together to create healthy communities through solutions designed to meet the ever-changing needs of the more than one million residents in the health system’s 26 counties served. In fiscal year 2023, MyMichigan Health provided more than $128 million in community benefits, as well as supported its patients and families with new equipment, services and programs with funds raised by the MyMichigan Health Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw Foundation, MyMichigan Medical Center Tawas Foundation, and the Field Neurosciences Institute.
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