What You Ought to Know:
– ChristianaCare has partnered with NeuroFlow, a behavioral well being expertise and analytics firm, to assist maternal psychological well being care in Delaware and surrounding communities for ChristianaCare sufferers.
– The strategic collaboration will leverage technology-driven affected person assist and schooling to develop a extra complete strategy to understanding and addressing the psychological well being wants of moms.
ChristianaCare Committement to Psychological Healthcare
Because the main supply supplier in Delaware, ChristianaCare delivers greater than 6,000 infants every year. To strengthen its dedication to connecting sufferers with psychological well being sources, ChristianaCare is investing in expertise that permits care groups to offer psychological well being assist to sufferers of their properties. ChristianaCare will present this program for gratis to pregnant sufferers, providing assist from early being pregnant by way of the postpartum interval.
ChristianaCare will make NeuroFlow’s platform obtainable for pregnant and post-partum sufferers at its hospitals and 15 OB-GYN outpatient areas, in addition to ChristianaCare’s Middle for Ladies’s Emotional Wellness (CWEW).
How the NeuroFlow Platform Enhances Care
Pregnant and postpartum ChristianaCare sufferers will obtain entry to a cell utility and text-message-based communications, schooling, and assessments. These instruments are designed to assist them be taught abilities for managing the challenges of being pregnant and parenthood. As sufferers progress, they are going to mechanically obtain related sources and common assessments from NeuroFlow, supporting them each step of the best way. Use of the cell utility is voluntary, and sufferers are usually not required to obtain and use it to entry prenatal or postpartum care; it’s supposed to complement ChristianaCare’s present complete assist.
Scientific care groups will use key information factors from the platform to watch affected person progress and observe behavioral well being signs and bodily care wants. This initiative is a part of a set of instruments developed by NeuroFlow aimed toward closing care gaps in maternal psychological well being, an space the place sufferers have historically been under-screened and under-supported.
“We all know that psychological well being and maternal well being are deeply intertwined,” stated Dr. Kaveeta Kumar, M.D., MBA, FACOG, interim chair of OB-GYN at ChristianaCare. “This expertise will considerably improve our capability to establish and reply to the person wants of moms. It would present impactful instruments that may supply sufferers peace of thoughts and provides care groups the chance to intervene when psychological well being wants escalate.”