Caption: Khalid Sawaged, DO, FACOG, Chairman, Dept. of OB/GYN (heart left) and Darrell Okay. Terry, Sr., mha, mph, fache, fhela, President and Chief Executive Officer, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey (heart proper) with the groups from the Women’s Health Center, Women’s Health Unit (Labor & Delivery, Post-Partum Mother/Baby) and the Newark Beth Israel Wellness Team on the info tabling occasion throughout Maternal Health Awareness Day, Jan. 23, 2024.

Newark, NJ (January 24, 2024) – The Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, Women’s Health group was joined by the South Ward Healthy Beginnings doulas, from the South Ward Promise Neighborhood, throughout Maternal Health Awareness Day on January 23 within the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark Strong Lobby at 201 Lyons Avenue.

Together they noticed Maternal Health Awareness Day on January 23, elevating consciousness amongst each clinicians and sufferers and shared the significance of prenatal and postpartum care, together with diet counseling, and social help function in serving to to enhance maternal well being outcomes. The twelve months instantly after supply could be vital, as it’s when a number of the most dangerous pregnancy-related issues can happen.

RWJBarnabas Health is dedicated to implementing packages that enhance a girl’s entry to excellent care from the second she begins planning for being pregnant or learns she is pregnant, all through her being pregnant and supply, and the 12-month postpartum interval. These packages embody supportive outreach and early identification for mothers with substance use dysfunction by means of a partnership among the many RWJBH Institute For Prevention and Recovery, hospital maternity packages and OB/GYN practices; complete psychological well being outreach and help by means of the Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Eatontown and West Orange; Centering Pregnancy, an evidence-based group prenatal help program for at-risk mothers at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center amongst others; and TeamBeginning NJ, an evidence-based initiative to assist guarantee excellent communication, teamwork and shared decision-making all through the birthing expertise.

Maternal Health Awareness Day was created in 2017 by the state of New Jersey to boost consciousness and supply schooling to each well being care suppliers and households about maternal well being. Since then, a statewide patient safety initiative led by the New Jersey Hospital Association discovered that collaborative efforts by the state’s birthing facilities are estimated to have averted greater than 10,000 C-sections over 5 years.

About Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, is a 665-bed regional care instructing hospital that gives complete well being care. Newark Beth Israel is a Top Teaching Hospital and residential to one of many nation’s high 15 coronary heart transplant facilities, which has carried out greater than 1,100 coronary heart transplants; RWJBarnabas Health’s Heart Failure Treatment and Transplant Program; New Jersey’s solely Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program and a Valve Center that performs complicated cardiac valve procedures, together with minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs). Newark Beth Israel Medical Center can also be dwelling to Children’s Hospital of New Jersey (CHoNJ), which cares for kids from delivery by means of adolescence, with greater than 30 specialised pediatric providers together with New Jersey’s largest Valerie Fund Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders; and the Children’s Heart Center that gives an entire vary of medical and surgical remedies for essentially the most complicated cardiac abnormalities. The Newark Beth Israel robotic surgical procedure program is essentially the most skilled in northern New Jersey. RWJBarnabas Health and The Frederick B. Cohen, MD, Comprehensive Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Breast Health Center, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey – the state’s solely NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center – brings a world class group of researchers and specialists to battle alongside you, offering close-to-home entry to the most recent therapy and medical trials. Newark Beth Israel additionally provides many preventive well being packages that promote wellness in the neighborhood, together with The Beth Greenhouse, which offers entry to recent produce and well being and wellness schooling to residents.