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  1. Appointment Intervals: Support flexibility in appointment scheduling that reduces the time interval between birth and postpartum follow-up care
  2. Community Health Workers: Train Community Health Workers to serve as a liaison between patients and healthcare providers to improve access to postpartum care
  3. Cost Sharing Partnerships: Support cost-sharing partnerships between payers, providers, and community support systems to defray expenses associated with postpartum visits
  4. Group Prenatal Care: Promote the use of Group Prenatal Care models that encourage and facilitate postpartum visit attendance
  5. Guideline Adherence Protocol: Develop or adopt a toolkit or note template for use by providers to help ensure they address all components of a comprehensive postpartum visit
  6. Home Visiting: Collaborate with home visiting programs to support mothers in obtaining timely postpartum care
  7. Medicaid Expansion/Extension: Support policy that expands and extends Medicaid coverage to pregnant women beyond 60 days postpartum
  8. Mobile Medical Clinics: Promote the use of mobile health clinics to provide postpartum preventive care in under resourced communities
  9. Mother-Infant Dyad Programs: Support primary- and pediatric-care partnerships that enable concurrent (co-located and co-timed) mother/infant preventive checkups
  10. Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Support evidence-based behavioral/motivational therapy that encourages women to attend postpartum visits
  11. Patient Navigation: Support patient navigation programs that include postpartum visit appointment scheduling and patient reminders
  12. Postpartum Care Plans: Promote the use of individualized postpartum care plans, co developed by obstetric providers and their patients, that include postpartum visit scheduling
  13. Provider Training and Education: Train perinatal nurses to education patients on potential postpartum complications that may require treatment after discharge
  14. Quality Improvement Initiatives: Promote hospital quality improvement initiatives designed to increase the rate of postpartum visit attendance
  15. Remote Monitoring: Incorporate telehealth options for postpartum checkups and remote monitoring of treatable conditions such as hypertension
  16. Workplace Support: Promote workplace policies that support paid leave for new parents and facilitate postpartum visit attendance

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U02MC31613, MCH Advanced Education Policy, $3.5 M. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.