About the Missouri PQC
We’re working to help everyone in Missouri receive high-quality maternal and neonatal care.
By providing access to perinatal resources for both health care providers and expectant or newer parents, the Missouri Perinatal Quality Collaborative is ensuring better, healthier outcomes for the communities we live in, support and strive to protect.
How
How we’re making a healthier tomorrow possible
Our success takes more than a mission. It takes more than dedicated partners. It takes the kind of support you can only get from people who are focused on a healthy Missouri.
Missouri was designated an Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health state in 2019 and the Missouri PQC was formalized in 2023. Through a comprehensive set of initiatives, technical support and educational resources, the MO PQC is making a positive impact on maternal and infant morbidity and mortality throughout the state.
WHO
The ones who make it happen
The Missouri PQC, in partnership with the Missouri Hospital Association, is supported through grants and contracts in partnership with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Health Resources and Services Administration, and Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Working in partnership with MHA has allowed the MO PQC to gain access to some of the area’s leading experts in perinatal education and care.
Learn more about the Missouri Hospital Association.
From health care thought leaders to industry experts, researchers and more, our team is comprised of dedicated professionals who want to turn our vision for Missouri into the future for Missouri.
Maternal-Child Learning and Action Network
The Maternal-Child Learning and Action Network offers assistance, facilitates the exchange of knowledge, and provides peer support for the creation of effective quality initiatives. These initiatives are centered around the Quadruple Aim principles, an expansion of the Triple Aim (enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing costs) to include an additional goal of improving the work life of health care providers.
- Anjali Anders, M.D.
- Chrissie Appleby
- Ta’Mare Banks, MSN, BSN
- Alan Barnette, M.D.
- Kimberly Brandt, D.O.
- Rebecca Burger, RN, BSN, CLC
- Lori Bushner
- Katherine Campbell, RN, BSN
- Niraj Chavan, M.D., MPH
- Karlyle Christian-Ritter, M.D.
- Bryanne Colvin, M.D.
- Kendra Copanas
- Erin Coppenbarger, M.S.
- Kimberly Costello
- Crystal L. Cox
- Cynthia Dean
- Zarmina Ehsan, M.D.
- Karen Florio, D.O.
- Karyn Fowler, M.D.
- Kathryn “Beth” Garrett, M.D.
- Monique Roberts Gill, LPC
- Barb Gleason, MSN
- Tara Goins, MSW
- Jennifer Hamilton-Gilpin, MHA, RN, BSN
- Lindsey Haslag, RN, BSN
- Jennifer L. Hawn, MSN, RN, RDMS OB/GYN, WHNP-BC
- Daniel Jackson, M.D.
- Courtney Johnson
- Traci Johnson, M.D.
- Justin Josephson, M.D.
- Nadim Kanafani, M.D., MPH
- Sue Kendig, J.D., WHNP-BC, FAANP
- Jami Kiesling, RN, BSN
- Pam Lesser, MSN, RNC-OB
- Steve Liao, M.D., MSCI
- Jenny Lockhart, RN
- Leandra Lyon, M.S.
- Devika Maulik, M.D.
- Kelly McKay-Gist, MSW, LCSW
- Alexis Myers, RN
- Ashlie Otto, RN, BSN
- Roxane Rampersad, M.D.
- Reggi Rideout
- Lanae Roman, RN, BSN
- Sarah Schlemeier Henke
- Kristin Schlenk, M.Ed., CHES
- Amy Sielaff
- Elizabeth Simpson, M.D.
- Martha Smith, MSN, RN
- Donna Spears
- Debby Sprandel, RN, BSN, MSN, MBA-HA
- Rashmi Srivastava, M.D.
- Amanda Stephens, M.D.
- Beth Stieferman
- Kristin Stovern, DNP, WHNP, CNM, FACNM
- Melissa Tepe, M.D.
- Melissa Terry, M.D.
- Amanda Trudell, D.O.
- Karen White
- Emily Williams, M.D.
- Tracey Williams, MSN, FNP-C
- Marvella Ying
- Sarah Younger, M.D.
PARTNERS
Meet our partners
None of the work we do for Missouri would be possible without the help of our partners and affiliates.
This project is supported in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a financial assistance award funded by CDC/HHS.
Missouri Hospital Association
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
The Uplift Connection
Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health
American Academy of Pediatrics – Missouri Chapter
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – Missouri Chapter
Amniotic Fluid Embolism Foundation
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses – Missouri Chapter
Bootheel Perinatal Network
Generate Health
Healthy Blue Anthem
Integrated Health Network
March of Dimes
M-Brace Birthing, LLC
Missouri Department of Social Services
Missouri Foundation for Health
Missouri Primary Care Association
MO HealthNet Division
National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health
Nurture KC
Promise 1000 KC
SafiMoms365, LLC
The Doula Foundation
ENGAGE
Join our mission
If you’d like to join a MO PQC initiative, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.