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 …
Hanamkonda Pioneers Simple Solutions to Reduce Sepsis Among Newborns
At the Government Maternity Hospital in Hanamkonda, Warangal District Telangana the Safe Care, Saving Lives team is finding simple solutions to solve major challenges affecting the health and wellbeing of mothers and newborns. In the Special Newborn Care Unit of the hospitals, …
Bright Start Members Visit First Respond in Shanghai
ACCESS Health China led a group of students from the Bright Start Project to visit the First Respond Shanghai office on June 28, 2017. The Chief Operations Officer of First Respond Robin Jun Lu, delivered a lecture to the students on the …
Changing the Fate of Newborn Babies in Nandyal, India
Although infant mortality rates in India have come down significantly over the last decade[1], the country still reports one of the highest infant mortality rate in the world. Of the three million neonatal deaths which happened globally in 2012, thirty three percent …
Cutting Cases of Hypothermia: A Safe Care, Saving Lives Success
Venkata Padma Hospital is a privately owned children’s hospital in the Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh. It caters to people living in the nearby tribal districts. The majority of the babies admitted to the hospital are born outside of the hospital facility …
Lessons Learned Saving Newborn Lives in India
The Safe Care, Saving Lives program launched in partnership with the Aarogyasri Health Care Trust in 2014 is designed to save newborn lives, reducing the neonatal and perinatal mortality rate in India by fifteen percent over a four year period. Currently, more …
Corporatizing Public Hospitals in the Philippines
The ACCESS Health team in the Philippines is finalizing the first phase of its nationwide study mapping the status of corporatizing public hospitals. ACCESS Health has worked with the Department of Health to identify public hospitals that have initiated or fully implemented …
Simple Solutions to the Greatest Health Challenges
This piece originally appeared in The Huffington Post. In life, the simplest solutions are often the best. When it comes to healthcare, they’re also almost always the cheapest. It’s striking then that we so often choose complex, costly, and ineffective healthcare solutions …
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