Laredo Medical Center Invests in Education and Training to Improve Maternal Safety
11/8/2019
Laredo Medical Center joins more than 200 Texas hospitals to improve maternal safety by implementing best practices through the TexasAIM program.
TexasAIM is sponsored by the Texas Department of State Health Services, the state’s public health agency, in collaboration with the Texas Hospital Association and the Alliance for Innovation in Maternal Health. It seeks to reduce maternal deaths and complications from specific causes by arming hospitals and medical personnel with sets of practices and tools, called maternal safety bundles, developed by experts in the field who have vetted these practices to ensure their effectiveness in improving patient safety.
“We are pleased to join forces with our counterparts across the state to work collaboratively and share best practices,” said Laredo Medical Center CEO Enrique Gallegos. “The goal is to end preventable maternal deaths and to improve women’s health, and Laredo Medical Center is committed to supporting this goal.”
In the next phases of TexasAIM, Laredo Medical Center and other participating hospitals will implement bundles on caring for women on specific maternal health and safety topics.
“Too many women and families are affected by pregnancy complications,” said DSHS Commissioner Dr. John Hellerstedt. “We know most pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, and this kind of collaboration between health care providers and public health gives us the best opportunity to save mothers’ lives.”
For more information about women’s health services at Laredo Medical Center, call 796-3223.
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