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The Perinatal Database Team
Edmund LaGamma, M.D.
Director, Newborn Medicine |
C.D. Hsu, M.D.
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine |
Heather L. Brumberg, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Perinatal Database Management
Susan Marchwinski, R.N.,C. M.S., State Perinatal Data Base
Coordinator
Donna Dozor, R.N., M.S., NICU Database Coordinator
Kathy Rogan, RNC, Neonatal Outreach Coordinator
Clare Nugent, R.N., Data Input/ OB Liaison |
The Statewide Perinatal Database System (SPDS) Team exists as an outgrowth of one of the State Department of Health's (DOH) initiatives toward achieving their goal of "improving mother and baby outcomes" in New York State. This initiative involves instituting a statewide perinatal database in every hospital in NYS where maternal/neonatal services are offered. This DOH initiative was conceived about 7 years ago through a series of public hearings in Albany involving health care providers and their medical societies, hospital associations, the managed care industry, and of course, the Department of Health, as sponsors. The data collection portion of the initiative has already been implemented in the Upstate Regions of Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany and our region, The Greater New York (Downstate) Region is now scheduled to come on-line with this process.
The SPDS is designed to give hospitals and public health agencies timely access to data for quality improvement and public health efforts while at the same time providing a mechanism for registering births with the Vital Records program. Our Team will travel to our regional hospitals to provide assistance and support in getting the system up and running in each facility as well as in the analysis of the data generated. Ultimately this data-driven information strategy will enable us as health care providers to identify "best practices" across broad community services and then to plan a system of implementation to optimize the organization of a specialized perinatal health care network.
As the Regional Perinatal Center, Westchester Medical Center and its SPDS Team is dedicated and committed to work with the DOH to formulate an infrastructure for quality improvement which utilizes the state perinatal database to enhance integration of the combined services of our regional hospitals and to accomplish the goal of improving the health outcomes of the women and babies we serve.
We can be contacted at (914) 493-8590
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