Ten Year Anniversary of ACCESS Health International
In 2017, ACCESS Health International celebrated its tenth anniversary. In ten years, ACCESS Health grew from a single office in Hyderabad, India to a global organization with offices in many of the major cities of the world, including New Delhi, Singapore, Beijing, …
Government of Telangana Leads Quality Improvement Initiatives Across the State to Help Save the Lives of Preterm Babies
Healthcare leaders in Telangana joined together at Niloufer Hospital to pledge their support to improve health outcomes for babies born preterm. Premature birth and low birthweight is a leading cause of infant mortality in India. The Government of Telangana has undertaken a …
Safe Care, Saving Lives Learning Session III Report
Safe Care, Saving Lives is a quality improvement program designed to increase newborn survival rates across the previously united Andhra Pradesh, now split into two states in India. The premise of Safe Care, Saving Lives is that improvements in clinical care practices …
A new approach to Public Health: Transforming Maternal and Newborn Care in Telangana
HealthCare India recently published an in depth report on our maternal and newborn child work in Telangana, India. Read the original post here or the excerpt from the post below. More than 659,000 newborn babies die every year in India. It is …
Following in the Footsteps of Successful Quality Improvement Initiatives: Modern Maternity Hospital in Petlaburj Starts New Sepsis Initiative
Modern Maternity Hospital, Petlaburj is the largest maternity hospital in Telangana, with an average of twelve hundred deliveries every month. The Special Newborn Care Unit in the hospital has more than two hundred admissions in a month, most of whom are babies …
Eliminating Sepsis in Khammam District Hospital Through Low Cost Quality Improvement
India is home to advanced innovations in healthcare services, yet it has the highest burden of newborn deaths in the world. The main causes of neonatal death in India are sepsis, low birth weight, premature births, and asphyxia. A newborn is most …
New Leadership Takes Hold at Telangana’s Aarogyasri Health Care Trust
ACCESS Health International and the Safe Care, Saving Lives Quality Improvement Collaborative are delighted to welcome Dr. K Manohar as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Government of Telangana Aarogyasri Health Care Trust. Dr. Manohar is CEO with Full Additional Charge, …
Safe Care, Saving Lives Quality Improvement Initiatives Serves as a Template for the Rajasthan Chirayu Program
Rajasthan is one of the four high mortality burden states in India, with a neonatal mortality rate of thirty two deaths per one thousand live births. More than fifty seven thousand babies die every year in the state – that is about …
Human Chain at Niloufer Hospital Highlights Breastfeeding as a Lifesaving Intervention
Breastfeeding is a critical intervention that could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five. Newborns who are breastfed exclusively for the first six months of life have fewer infections and respiratory illnesses than newborns who …
Improving Quality of Care for Mothers and Newborns in India
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement held a quality improvement capacity building workshop for Safe Care, Saving Lives team members in August. The workshop was an opportunity for team members to develop a deep understanding of different models for quality improvement. Continuous quality …
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