Mission: The Los Angeles Best Babies Network is dedicated to providing the infrastructure, programs, advocacy and support to enhance capacity of community stakeholders working to achieve healthy births. Vision: The Los Angeles Best Babies Network envisions positive, productive systems supporting families and communities to achieve healthy births.
Health Care Focus:
Perinatal health
Focus Areas:
Coordinates the First 5 LA Healthy Births Initiative Provides central coordination for a perinatal health policy agenda Conducts Care Quality Improvement activities to assist providers and others to implement system change Provides technical assistance to Healthy Births Learning Collaborative and Best Babies Collaborative Serves as a resource for and dissemination of information on policy and advocacy issues as identified by the community and in response to governmental changes
Key Policy Initiatives:
Support financing for interconception care, which is care between pregnancies for high-risk women Build upon and strengthen comprehensive perinatal services for all women Assure every eligible newborn is enrolled in Medi-Cal before leaving the hospital Support of pregnancy-friendly and family-friendly workplace policies
