Nurture NJ is an awareness campaign that seeks to reduce the state’s high maternal and infant mortality rates and eliminate racial disparities in health care.
The Department of Health is committed to using research, data, and state-wide outreach collaboratives to end preventable morbidity, mortality and racial disparities in New Jersey maternity care and to improve health outcomes for mothers.
On this site, you will find:
The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, at the request of the State and several foundations supporting perinatal care in New Jersey, led a work group that brought together neonatologists, obstetricians, doulas, midwives, labor and delivery nurses, social workers and others to create: Recommendations of the New Jersey Perinatal Care During COVID-19 Work Group.
The document provides specific and clear guidance aimed at ensuring that all pregnant individuals obtain safe and equitable care despite the social distancing and infection controls necessary to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The recommendations focus on safety and accommodations to support pregnant individuals in areas such as:
The Maternal Health Report Card is a yearly report of maternal healthcare provided at NJ licensed acute general care hospitals (per statute P.L. 2018, c.82)
The interactive website is designed to provide information about:
Unnecessary surgical births are too common in New Jersey. Towards ensuring that New Jersey becomes the safest place to give birth, one of the first statewide priorities is to reduce Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex (NTSV) cesarean birth rates to bring hospitals in line with the national target established in Healthy People 2020.
