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The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) will hold a webinar, Preventing Suicide in the Year Following Birth: Lessons from California, to explain the findings from a recent California study on pregnancy-associated suicides. The members-only webinar will be held from 11 a.m. to noon (PT) on Nov. 17.
The webinar will reveal important findings about key risk factors for maternal suicide, the types of symptoms and critical warning signs displayed prior to suicide, and the role of substance use as a contributing factor.
Recommendations on access to care and evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of perinatal mental health conditions will be discussed. Faculty include Elliott Main, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University, Stanford Healthcare, and Nirmaljit Dhami, MD, medical director, inpatient perinatal psychiatry at El Camino Hospital.
For more information or to register, visit the program web page.
This webinar dovetails with HQI’s Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Learning Community, a two-year program of education, technical assistance, and peer support to strengthen perinatal mental health care in hospitals. To date, 141 California hospitals are participating, and others are welcome to enroll.
There is no charge for participation. To learn more about the PMH Learning Community, which is supported by the California Health Care Foundation, click here.