Central Advisory Council Subcommittee on a Universal Prenatal
Risk-Screening Tool
Chair
--Pat Moore Moss, MSW, LCSW, Director, Office of Maternal, Child and Family
Health Committee
Members
--Allan Chamberlain, M.D.
--Ted Cheatham, Director, PEIA
--Dan Christy, MPA, Director, Health Statistics Center
--Jeannie Clark, RN, Director, Right From the Start
--Liz Cohen, M.S.W., WVU Department of OB/Gyn
--Brenda Dawley, MD, ACOG Chair, Elect/Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
--Pam Jones, Blue Cross Blue Shield
--Beverly Kitchen, RN, CAMC, Right From the Start
--Tom Light, Programmer, Health Statistics Center
--Patty Perdue, Partners in Community Outreach
--Mark Polak, MD, Neonatologist, WVU Children’s Hospital
--Robert Pulliam, MD, Access Health
--Stephanie Shabandy, RN, Insurance Commission Committee
Staff
--Ann Dacey, Nurse Coordinator, WV Perinatal Partnership
Volunteer to serve on this Committee
Risk Assessment
Comprehensive
risk assessment enables the prenatal care provider to determine whether the
woman or the fetus is at increased risk and provides the basis
for further assessment and intervention. Risk factors are characteristics
that indicate a higher probability of adverse outcome and help guide the
action by the woman, social supports, and the medical provider.
One of the recommendations arising out of the
Blueprint to Improve
West Virginia Perinatal Health in 2006 was to identify a maternal risk
scoring instrument to be used universally by all obstetrical medical
providers and all payers. A fuller description of the challenge and
recommendations for meeting it are contained in the
Reports on the Blueprint to Improve Perinatal Health in West Virginia
(2008). The Partnership is working to achieve those recommendations.