Missouri PQC News

The 2025 Missouri PQC Maternal & Infant Symposium brought together over 170 passionate professionals, advocates and community leaders for three days of learning, collaboration and bold ideas. From Dr. Kathryn Menard’s opening keynote on North Carolina’s Pregnancy Medical Home...

In today’s health care landscape, addressing a patient’s medical needs is only part of the equation. Nonclinical factors — like housing, food access, transportation and safety — play a critical role in an individual’s overall well-being. That’s where closed-loop referral systems ...

I’m Jillian Simmons, a certified nurse midwife with more than 12 years of experience in obstetrics. My journey into midwifery began with a deep passion for women’s health and a desire to support families through one of life’s most transformative experiences: childbirth.  I earned...

What is the MC LAN? The Maternal-Child Learning and Action Network brings together health care professionals, community-based organizations, state agencies, patients and other stakeholders around an evidence-based agenda to achieve rapid, widescale improvement in maternal and infant...

Meet Dr. Kelsey Davis-Humes  Dr. Kelsey Davis-Humes is a passionate advocate for rural health care, especially in the fields of women’s health, obstetrics and pediatrics. A graduate of A.T. Still University (2016) and SIU Family Medicine Residency in Quincy, Ill. (2019), Dr....

Becky Floyd, MSW, LCSW Mental Health Case Manager II, BRAVE Clinic In 2024, Mercy was awarded a $1.3 million grant from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to launch a groundbreaking initiative: the BRAVE Clinic. BRAVE stands for Building, Recovery, Advocacy,...

The Missouri Perinatal Quality Collaborative mourns the loss of Taylor Dyer — mother, spouse, Certified Patient Family Partner, Maternal Health Task Force member, and Maternal Child Learning and Action Network member. Taylor joined the MO PQC in February 2024, bringing with her a...

Guesswork vs. precision — let’s close the gap. Join the Quantitative Blood Loss vs. Estimated Blood Loss Challenge, empowering birthing providers to champion accuracy, elevate care and improve outcomes.  Hemorrhage is the sixth leading underlying cause of pregnancy-related death ...

Issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, the Missouri Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Missouri Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board and the Missouri Perinatal Quality Collaborative In Missouri, we are united in...