The Pregnant People Implementation Guide provides step-by-step guidance to help Community Health Centers and primary care practices strengthen population health management for pregnant and postpartum people. Designed to support substantive cultural, technological, and process changes, the guide focuses on improving equitable prenatal care, postpartum care, perinatal care, and prenatal and postpartum depression screening and follow-up while advancing person-centered, population-based care.
The guide includes practical implementation strategies for multidisciplinary care teams, prepregnancy healthcare, evidence-based perinatal clinical guidelines, specialty referral, standing orders, care gap reports and registries, proactive patient outreach, pre-visit planning, health-related social needs screening, behavioral health integration, postpartum depression screening, postpartum planning and care, patient self-care, care coordination, vaccine uptake, group prenatal care (Centering Pregnancy), doula programs, referral pathways, community partnerships, care management, virtual care, and strengthening a culture of equity. Additional guidance addresses quality measurement, health information technology (HIT), continuous quality improvement, and sustainable workflows to improve maternal health outcomes and reduce disparities across the prenatal and postpartum continuum.