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Explore Every Baby Guilford's strategies and learn we are doing to create community driven opportunities around our priority areas of eliminating racial disparities, improving preconception health, and promoting radically inclusive community engagement.
Fetal Infant Mortality Review
In 2020, Guilford County began the process of implementing a Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR). A FIMR significantly improves a community’s performance of public health functions as well as enhances the existing perinatal care system’s goals, components and communication mechanisms.
The focus of FIMR on systems of care and identifying gaps in care results in action being taken in a way that interpretation of vital statistics data alone does not necessarily promote.
FIMR provides an opportunity to:
- Monitor the effects of a changeable health care system.
- Assists communities to understand how changing conditions impact services and resources and affect families throughout the community trying to access or utilize services.
As a community driven process, FIMRs utilize a Review Team to review maternal medical records from infant deaths and make systems level recommendations when necessary. An Action Team is made up of community policy leaders who listen to recommendations and make the necessary changes in a community.
Family Voice
In addition, FIMR includes an extensive family interview. The family or maternal interview provides significant information about health equity and disparities among diverse populations in the community, the problems families face and their knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about health. In addition, the information present reveals whether or not quality services and community resources are available, accessible, culturally appropriate and responsive to the community. It also offers insights into why services and resources may not be effective.
Strategic Plan
Every Baby Guilford is a community driven collective action collaboration of expectant parents, parents, community leaders, funders, government leaders, health providers, educational institutions, community based organizations, faith based and business institutions. Learn more about our Strategic Plan.