The Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) is proud to be featured in the latest Michigan CQI Spotlight, highlighting our ongoing efforts to improve maternal care statewide. The article explores our commitment to collaborative quality improvement, recent successes, and...
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Celebrating Excellence in Childbirth Care: 2025 OBI Awards
On Friday, November 7, the Obstetrics Initiative (OBI) proudly presented the 2025 OBI Awards at our Fall Semiannual Meeting, celebrating outstanding achievements in childbirth care across Michigan. These awards honor hospital teams whose commitment and expertise have...
Bringing Patients COMFORT Through Safer Prescribing After Childbirth
The Obstetrics Initiative (OBI), a Collaborative Quality Initiative (CQI) dedicated to improving childbirth care in Michigan, works with more than 65 hospital teams to help maternity clinicians improve postpartum pain control, reduce harmful opioid prescribing, and...
Congratulations to our 2024 Award Winners!
Please join us in celebrating our 2024 OBI award recipients! OBI recognized ten of our hospital partners for their dedication, commitment, and hard work at the Fall 2024 OBI Semiannual Meeting, held in Lansing, MI on October 18, 2024. Awarded to sites that are...
OBI at SMFM’s Annual Pregnancy Meeting
The OBI Coordinating Center has over 10 posters and presentations at the 2024 Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s Annual Pregnancy Meeting! We’re looking forward to learning and networking with our peers in maternal-fetal medicine. Tuesday, February 13th Poster...
OBI CQI Impact Story
We've surpassed 100K births in the OBI Registry! A special thanks to our Clinical Data Abstractors (CDAs) for providing this clinically rich data, which allows OBI to do robust analyses of hospital performance changes, wins, & areas for improvement Learn more...
Congratulations to our 2023 Award Winners!
Please join us in celebrating our 2023 OBI award recipients! OBI recognized ten of our hospital partners for their dedication, commitment, and hard work at the Fall 2023 OBI Semiannual Meeting, held in Grand Rapids, MI on November 10, 2023. NTSV Cesarean Champion...