Staff Publications

Access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) varies across racial and ethnic groups. Findings can inform Medicaid efforts to improve access to MOUD for all enrollees.

Maternal interconception care is essential to improve birth outcomes by targeting maternal risk factors. The Healthy Mom, Healthy Family (HMHF) program expanded the Interventions to Minimize Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants through Continuous Improvement Techniques (IMPLICIT) Network’s scope by incorporating interconception care into pediatric and family medicine well-child visits (WCVs). We compared screening and referral/counseling rates for maternal behaviors between pediatricians and family physicians. Physicians used a standardized data tool to collect information on maternal…

In July 2022, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) launched a statewide Regional Quality Improvement (QI) Hub program using a hub-and-spoke model to embed Learning Health System (LHS) capabilities in primary care. The Ohio State University (OSU) Hub piloted the approach across ten affiliated sites, aiming to raise overall hypertension control by ≥ 10 percentage points and promote more consistent levels of hypertension control across patient populations by June 2027. This report describes the first 18 months post-implementation.

While nearly three-quarters (71.8%) of Ohio adults have ever received a COVID-19 vaccine, there is substantial variation by age, race/ethnicity, education, and county type.

The HEALing Communities Study (HCS) tested a community-based intervention in 67 communities across Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio to reduce opioid overdose deaths. This paper introduces the HCS measures for monitoring the intervention uptake, reports crude rates for benchmarking, and highlights the importance of interpreting jurisdictional trends in the context of state policies.

Symptoms of urgent maternal warning signs (UMWS) may occur during pregnancy or after delivery and may have lasting effects or indicate a life-threatening situation if left untreated. The state department of health sponsored a quality improvement project (QIP) to broaden the reach of UMWS education beyond traditional clinical settings, to public health settings where prenatal and postpartum women are seen. Specifically, the QIP implemented process changes to provide education (written and verbal) and resources to individuals receiving services from Women, Infants, and Children clinics during…

The manuscript describes the MOMI PODS transition and management clinical informatics platforms developed to facilitate MOMI PODS referrals, scheduling, evidence-based multidisciplinary care, and program evaluation.