Tennessee Medicaid patient immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception utilization.

Objectives: To understand immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception (IPP LARC) desire and utilization trends among publicly insured patients delivering at one academic hospital in a state with health care barriers and high short-interval birth rates.

Study Design: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of electronic delivery records between March 2018 and June 2023 for publicly insured patients. Patient demographics, IPP LARC desire and utilization trends were compared using χ or Fisher exact tests.

Educating Nurses to Improve Awareness and Use of a Human Milk Feeding Care Pathway for Opioid-Exposed Neonates.

Objective: To increase nurses' awareness and use of a human milk feeding (HMF) and opioid use disorder (OUD) standardized care pathway to improve rates of HMF at discharge in opioid-exposed neonates (OENs).

Design: Quality improvement project.

Setting/local Problem: Underutilizing an HMF and OUD standardized care pathway in an academic medical center led to declining HMF rates at discharge.