DOMAIN – Women and Maternal Health

2021 Application Year

Well-Woman Care 2021 Plan

National Performance Measure (#1)

Percent of women with a past year preventive visit.

Note: timeline for all activities below is throughout the grant year as needed unless otherwise noted.

Note also: due to COVID-19, submission of local Title V annual plans has been delayed, so we do not know which local grantees will select this priority and are unable to write about specific local level activities planned for the upcoming year at this time.

Planned strategies, ESMs, and activities for October 2020 – September 2021

Strategy #1: Case-management to improve utilization of well-woman care

Note: timeline for all activities below is throughout the grant year as needed unless otherwise noted.

Activities - State Level

• Provide training and technical assistance, data collection, and quality improvement activities for the MCH Nurse Home Visiting and MIECHV-funded Home Visiting programs. A key activity of the home visiting programs is to provide case management to assist women in establishing a medical home and accessing preventive care.
• Explore opportunities to collaborate with Oregon Mother’s Care program on case management activities.

Strategy #2: Use traditional and social marketing to educate the population and promote well woman care.

Note: timeline for all activities below is throughout the grant year as needed unless otherwise noted.

Activities – State Level

• Support shared learning of best practices and lessons learned through Well Woman Care learning collaborative meetings that included Title V grantees and partners.
• Work with a committee to plan for outreach activities for Women’s Health Week 2021.
• Seek out guidance and partnership with agencies communications team.

ESM: Number of women reached using traditional and social marketing campaigns such as CDC Show Your Love brochures, social media including Facebook and Twitter, attendance at health fairs and community meetings, and public service announcements. (Objective: 1000)

Strategy #3: Provide education/training on preconception/ interconception and well woman care for health care providers.

Note: timeline for all activities below is throughout the grant year as needed unless otherwise noted.

Activities – State Level

• Explore interest in continuation of learning collaborative meetings.
• Provide technical assistance and support to local grantees.
• Participate in the Oregon Perinatal Collaborative and pursue shared activities.

ESM: Percent of local health departments receiving technical assistance to support implementation of the well woman care priority area. (Objective: 100)

Strategy #4: Support access to well woman care through Family Planning Clinics.

Note: timeline for all activities below is throughout the grant year as needed unless otherwise noted.

Activities – State Level

• Coordination and collaboration with the state Reproductive Health Program.

ESM: Number of state and local partners engaged to improve access to and quality of well-woman care and reproductive health services. (Objective: 20)

Strategy #5: Use of the postpartum health care visit to increase utilization of well-woman visits.

Note: timeline for all activities below is throughout the grant year as needed unless otherwise noted.

Activities – State Level

• Provide support and expertise to developing and implementing recommendations from Oregon’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee.
• Provide training and technical assistance to Oregon’s MCH Nurse Home Visiting Programs.
• Provide technical assistance to Oregon’s CCOs around the post-partum care incentive metric.
• Provide subject matter expertise to surveillance activities through participation in PRAMS team.

Critical Partnerships

• Local grantees
• The Oregon Perinatal Collaborative
• Oregon’s Healthy Start programs
• Other public health programs including reproductive health, WIC, MIECHV and MCH Nurse Home Visiting, the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Committee, PRAMS and Oregon Mothers Care