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MDHHS launched the Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative (MI PQC) in 2015; over the past several years, all 50 states along with the District of Columbia have established State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives. The State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives, including the MI PQC, are part of the National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (NNPQC).
Contact Michigan's Perinatal Quality Collaborative Coordinator to learn more.
Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative Advancing Healthy Births: Request for Proposals - 2025
To facilitate alignment with the Advancing Healthy Births plan and encourage collaborative efforts with the MI PQC and individual Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (RPQCs), funding was awarded to community-based organizations and local programs, whose efforts focus on improving birthing outcomes and advancing healthy births. The Advancing Healthy Births: Request for Proposals was led by the RPQCs and made possible by funding received through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Download the list of 2025 awarded agencies and projects.
Advancing Health Outcomes for Families
♦ Actively addressing systemic health gaps and social drivers of health outcomes.
♦ Partnering with Maternal Child Health Epidemiology and Infant Health Epidemiology to collect, analyze and share data to improve health outcomes for all.
Implementing and expanding care for families affected by Perinatal Substance Use Disorder (PSUD)
♦ Increased screening for mental and behavioral health concerns at prenatal clinics through utilization of an electronic screening tool (such as High Touch, High Tech).
♦ Increased accessibility of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for pregnant & postpartum women, as well as coordination of prenatal care for pregnant women receiving MAT.
♦ Establish rooming-in policies and procedures for families with babies born substance-exposed at participating birthing hospitals.
Improving access to respectful, quality care throughout the pregnancy and postpartum period
♦ Promoting CenteringPregnancy© as an evidence-based model of prenatal care.
♦ Increased referrals and enrollment to evidence-based home visiting programs through various interventions, including enhanced social media posts, warm hand-offs from trusted providers, referral hubs, etc.
♦ Bolstering virtual birthing and breastfeeding education and support.
♦ Building a doula workforce through training, mentorship and continued education opportunities.
Download the Michigan Perinatal Quality Collaborative Information Sheet to learn more about improving birth outcomes for Michigan families.
Recognizing the diverse geographic and demographic nature of the state, Michigan approached its structure of the PQC in a unique manner. The Michigan PQC (MI PQC) is comprised of nine (9) Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (RPQC), representing the state’s ten (10) Prosperity Regions (see map above), with all nine established by 2019.
As an individual’s health outcomes are attributed to clinical care, as well as environment, socioeconomic factors, and health-related behaviors, the RPQCs utilize both community and clinical approaches by bringing together health care professionals, community partners, families, faith-based organizations, Great Start Collaboratives, home visiting agencies, and others in a unified, collaborative effort.
RPQC Approach:
The Region 1 Perinatal Quality Collaborative was initiated in 2017 with a goal of ensuring birthing women and babies are healthy and thriving across the Upper Peninsula. The predominantly rural Region covers 15 counties and is home to an extensive coastline on three of the Great Lakes. Every county in the Upper Peninsula has at least one Health Professional Shortage Area designation.
Website: https://www.uphcs.org/rpqc/
Regions 2 & 3 share a combined Perinatal Quality Collaborative, which was the initial Regional Perinatal Quality Collaborative in Michigan, and was formed in 2011. Funding through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) was initiated in 2015. The primarily rural Region covers 21 counties near the northern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Website: https://healthyfuturesonline.org/
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Michigan’s Region 4 Perinatal Quality Collaborative has been working to reduce infant and maternal mortality since 2016. The region consists of the second highest population center in Michigan, Grand Rapids, and includes a variety of towns and rural communities along Lake Michigan’s West coast.
Website: https://westmipqc.org/
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Region 5 Perinatal Quality Collaborative was initiated in 2018. Located adjacent to Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron, the region includes rural areas, as well as several small urban cities with their own unique characteristics and dynamics. The work of the R5PQC is driven by a commitment to reduce infant mortality and address both medical and social factors that impact maternal and infant health.
Website: https://r5pqc.com/
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Region 6 Perinatal Quality Collaborative is geographically located in the Thumb Area of Michigan. Formal collaboration was initiated in 2019. The region includes large areas of rural countryside, as well as being home to Flint, its largest city.
Website: https://www.region6pqc.org
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Region 7 Perinatal Quality Collaborative was initiated in 2019 with a goal of ensuring mothers and babies are healthy and thriving across Clinton, Eaton and Ingham Counties. The region encompasses the cities of Lansing and East Lansing, as well as rural townships and villages.
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The Region 8 Perinatal Quality Collaborative, located in southwest Michigan, is home to a blend of urban settings, small towns, rural farmland, and miles of sandy Lake Michigan shoreline. Kalamazoo is the largest city in the region, with a population of about 80,000, which is rich with a diverse and engaged community.
Website: www.swmpqic.com
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Region 9 Perinatal Quality Collaborative was initiated in 2019 and continues working to support healthy moms and healthy babies. Region 9 aims to develop data-driven, innovative strategies that are tailored to the strengths and challenges of the region to improve birth outcomes. The region covers six counties and consists of Metropolitan cities which are mixed urban-suburban areas, along with beautiful rural farmland, and unique small towns.
Email: contact@region9.org
Website: www.Region9.org
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Region 10 Perinatal Quality Collaborative, located in Southeast Michigan, was initiated in 2015. SEMPQIC works to reduce adverse maternal, perinatal and infant outcomes, including infant and maternal mortality, by creating a coordinated and sustainable network for perinatal care based on best practices, evidence-based and innovative community solutions that will result in system changes and improved birth outcomes for all babies born in the Region.
Email: info@sempqic.org
Website: https://www.sempqic.org
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For more information on the RPQC's,
please contact:
Emily Goerge, MPH, MSN, RN
Perinatal Nurse Coordinator
GoergeE@Michigan.gov