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Pregnancy Medical Home

Better care, better birth outcomes

The NC Division of Medical Assistance, the NC Division of Public Health and CCNC are working together to develop a new program designed to provide comprehensive, coordinated maternity care to pregnant Medicaid patients. The program aims to improve the quality of maternity care, improve outcomes for mothers and babies, and reduce medical care costs.

Priority risk factors include:

• History of preterm birth
• History of low birth weight
• Multiple gestation
• Fetal complications
• Chronic conditions which may complicate pregnancy
• Unsafe living environment (e.g., homelessness, inadequate housing, family violence)
• Substance or tobacco use
• Late entry into prenatal care
• Missing two or more prenatal appointments without rescheduling
• Unanticipated hospital utilization Emergency Department or Labor & Delivery triage visits, ante partum hospitalization
• Physician request for care management assessment

Medicaid recipients with any of these priority risk factors will receive an assessment from a pregnancy care manager. These are not the only reasons why a patient may need pregnancy care management, and a provider can request an assessment at any time.

For more information contact: LaSonya Little, RN, BSN, PMH Coordinator, 336.553.4425