Statement on Black Maternal Health Week 2023

By Susan Gullo, Director, Women and Infants Service Line, Premier Inc.

Premier is proud to recognize and support Black Maternal Health Week, which highlights the urgent need to incorporate Black midwives, Black-led Doulas and recognize the unique needs of Black mothers to help eliminate disparities in maternal-infant health.

Premier continues to support the Biden-Harris Administration’s Maternal Health Call to Action launched in December 2021, aimed at reducing maternal mortality and morbidity that disproportionately impacts Black mothers and families.

Premier is focused on furthering improvement efforts, including the PINC AI™ Perinatal Improvement Collaborative (PPIC). This PPIC includes more than 220 hospital systems in all 50 states using performance improvement tools and standardized data to measure outcomes for both mothers and babies to help paint a clearer picture of what is driving deaths and harm. At its core, the PPIC is a health equity effort that strives to address the factors that impact maternal and infant health outcomes from racial, ethnic, social and geographic disparities to examine how care could be tailored to mothers with different needs.

Premier continues to build our collaboration efforts with OWH, MoMMA's Voices and other national leaders to shed light on the source of the problem so that our nation can make healthcare safe and equitable for all mothers.

Contact: Public_Relations@premierinc.com