Perinatal education & consultation services
The Perinatal Outreach Education and Consultation (POEC) Services grant is a program designed to provide services to health care providers who care for pregnant Maine citizens and their newborns. POEC program services are provided upon request to all Maine perinatal care providers including physicians, nurses, certified nurse midwives, certified professional midwives and other individuals or groups with interest in healthy outcomes for pregnant people and infants.
Funded by: Maine CDC
Grant award: Competitive bid every six years. Awarded for two years. May be renewed up to two cycles.
Current cycle: through June 2025
Service area: Southern Region
Program goals
- Reducing maternal, fetal and infant mortality and morbidity in Maine
- Strengthening the factors that contribute to safe and healthy perinatal outcomes
- Promoting and sustaining a statewide system of high quality perinatal services that are accessible to all residents
Contact Us
Emily Watson, Nurse Coordinator
Kathy Taylor, Administrative Support
Phone: 207-662-5127
Fax: 207-662-6063
Email: [email protected]
Education and Resources
Education is available on a by-request basis, examples include:
- NRP Provider and Instructor Mentorship
- Electronic Fetal Monitoring
- Perinatal Substance Abuse
- Obstetric Emergencies and Neonatal Resuscitation Simulations
- STABLE
- Breastfeeding Skills
- Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
- Others upon request
Recorded Webinars
Perinatal Transport Case Conferences are a multi-disciplinary review of transported mothers and babies.
- Literature reviews on any perinatal topic
- Individual case reviews
The perinatal outreach program is informed by evidence-based practices as well as strong collaborations with several community partners and professional organizations.
Community Partners
Professional Organizations
The work plan includes several areas intended to improve perinatal outcomes throughout the state of Maine. Activities and goals include:
- Completion and dissemination of the (perinatal addiction and newborn narcotic withdrawal guidelines)
- Collaborating with hospitals on safe prevention of the primary c-section
- Collaborating with hospitals to support breastfeeding initiatives
- Reducing the number of infants dying in unsafe sleep conditions
- Promoting high quality safe home and hospital birth practices
- Levels of Care Assessment Tool (LOCATe)/Perinatal System of of Care
- Aid in the reduction of maternal and infant mortality rates
- Technical Assistance and Support for programs and initiatives related to Perinatal Addiction and Mental Health
Activities include:
- Member, Maternal and Infant Mortality and Resiliency Review
- Coordinator, Perinatal Leadership Coalition of Maine four times per year
- Planner, the MCH Annual Conference
Goals
- Support quality improvement initiatives in Maine to increase prenatal breastfeeding education, breastfeeding initiation, and exclusive breastfeeding through six months
- Assist in improving the breastfeeding education and services you provide for new moms and babies.
Goals over the next 18 months are to:
- Increase % of infants ever breastfed (from 85.3%, according to the 2018 CDC BF Report Card)
- Increase % of infants exclusively breastfed at six months (from 34.1%, 2018 CDC BF Report Card)
- Increase # of milk depots (two in Maine in 2018)
- Increase access to Pasteurized Donor Human Milk (PDHM) in Level one and Level two nurseries for medically-indicated supplementation
Sample Policies
- (AOA体育平台 Maine Medical Center, Nov 2018)
- (Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 2018)
- (AOA体育平台 Maine Medical Center, Oct 2018)
- (Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 2017)
- ABM鈥檚 Position Statement on Informal Breast Milk Sharing for the Term Healthy Infant (Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 2017)
Resources
State
National
Patient Education Resources
- Substance Use (marijuana, opiates, etc.) and Breastfeeding:
- Breastfeeding Education in other Languages
- (select preferred language from the drop-down menu at the top of each page)
Perinatal Breastfeeding Newsletters
Breastfeeding Educational Opportunities
- (wide-range of excellent webinars; pricing available for members and non-members)
Prenatal Education Webinar Series
Contact
Contact Kara Kaikini at [email protected] with breastfeeding questions. She is ready to help you on your path to improving breastfeeding support in your hospital, practice or community.