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Public Private Partnerships formed by SNEHA. City Initiative for Newborn Health ASK partnership Arogya Sarita. Multi-tiered public health system. 3 super-specialty teaching hospitals. Intervention facilities. 14 general hospitals. 24 maternity hospitals. 167 health posts.
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Public Private Partnerships formed by SNEHA City Initiative for Newborn Health ASK partnership Arogya Sarita
Multi-tiered public health system 3 super-specialty teaching hospitals Intervention facilities 14 general hospitals 24 maternity hospitals 167 health posts
Issues from formative research • 50% of women and children from slums access public health facilities • Health posts provide limited antenatal and postnatal services • Maternity homes and peripheral hospitals find it difficult to provide designated level of care • Tertiary level services are overburdened • Referral system not formalised • Health care providers need support and skill development to deliver quality care
City Initiativefor Maternal and Newborn Health Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition Centre for International Health & Development
Goal To establish a continuous quality improvement (CQI) cycle factoring in clinical and behavioural aspects of service delivery to enable facilities to provide designated level of quality care Arrived at through participatory consultations
MCGM Public health services Community ICICI SIG Corporate bank UCL CIHD Research partner SNEHA NGO
SNEHA • NGO founded 1999 • Focus on maternal and child health in urban slums • Activities in nine city wards • Neonatologists, Social workers, Social scientists, Health management specialists, Behavioral scientist
MCGM Public Health services • Extensive health infrastructure covering a large section of urban poor • Primary health and tertiary care • Proactive leadership • Participation in designing the project • Co-implementation • Monitoring
Services Infrastructure Monitoring Community Design input Evaluation Networking Dissemination Problem identification Mobilisation Monitoring Funding Design input Networking Dissemination Binding partner Implementation Monitoring
Strategy for change in health facilities Peripheral hospital Regional referral links Appreciative Inquiry and Action Groups
Health posts 8 fully-functioning antenatal clinics with staff trained on antenatal, postnatal, and neonatal care Clinically trained staff across 14 health posts Improvements in motivation and attitude through Communication trainings 700 antenatal clients, 20% make two or more visits More than 1600 neonates brought in for neonatal care Achievements
Maternity homes Standardized evidence-based clinical protocols Clinical training: 20 modules in obstetrics and neonatology Maintenance of partograph by 60% of maternity homes Dedicated hotline connectivity from maternity homes to peripheral and tertiary hospitals Appreciative Inquiry training and communication trainings extended by MCGM across all maternity homes in the city Achievements
Peripheral hospitals Regional referral link with maternity homes has been established in three Hotline connectivity established and functional Initiation and maintenance of transfer in and out records Achievements
ASK partnership Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai ASK Foundation
Within the City Initiative for Newborn Health Aimed to upgrade public health facilities ‘Vital’ level of equipment provided for: 3 maternity homes 1 peripheral hospital No user fees Utilization monitored ASK partnership
Arogya Sarita Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Mahindra & Mahindra
Integrated model of primary health careKandivili • To improve quality of health care and health seeking behaviour in the defined population • To build an integrated model of comprehensive primary health care • To bring together partners from corporate, government and civil society to deliver improved quality of health care
Partnership issues • Despite equal status of partners, one partner tends to drive the initiative • SNEHA at times took a lead role in implementation, monitoring and evaluation • This may occasionally have reduced the effectiveness of the initiative • Staff buy-in for partograph introduction • Re-institution of antenatal clinics at health posts • MCGM officials are to be commended for their active engagement in the process of change • regular clinical training across the city • partography at maternity hospitals • sanctioning establishment of more clinics at health post
Partnership sustainability • Beginning with action groups is useful • Partnerships and partner roles take time to mature • over 2 years until ground-level activities established • Sustained partnerships lead to further partnerships and new activities • experience in urban health partnership helped leverage funding for further work in Ghatkopar under the Sure Start program • There is a difference between contracting out and the sort of partnership we have developed, which involves facilitatory roles for multiple partners