New Mexico Perinatal Collaborative

Welcome to New Mexico Perinatal Collaborative, New Mexico's resource for perinatal care providers, partners, and advocates.

Who We Are

We are the designated Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PQC) for the state of New Mexico. We collaborate with healthcare facilities, state agencies, community-based organizations, and perinatal care providers to implement best practices and improve maternal and infant outcomes statewide. Established in 2014, NMPC focuses on strategies that reduce known barriers to quality improvement.

PQCs operate nationwide and are networks of multidisciplinary teams working to improve outcomes for parents and infants in their state or region. The ultimate goal is to achieve improvements in population-level outcomes in maternal and infant health.

What We Do

We provide education, training, resources, and quality improvement (QI) support to strengthen delivery of and access to high-quality perinatal care. Our initiatives aim to:

Increase integration across healthcare disciplines
Improve data collection and use to inform QI
Empower healthcare teams to deliver the highest quality care
Ensure the provision of holistic and culturally respectful care

Who We Serve

We support hospital teams and perinatal care clinicians and build trusted partnerships with public health leaders, community partners, lived-experience experts, and others working to improve outcomes. Our work spans the full range of clinical environments where perinatal care occurs in New Mexico — including hospital birthing units, critical access hospitals, Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities, emergency departments (ED), and medical transport services. While NMPC’s role as the state PQC centers on hospital-based quality improvement rather than community birth settings, our initiatives aim to promote safe, respectful, and equitable care for all birthing families statewide.

Maternity Care Deserts

New Mexico is geographically vast and culturally rich, with significant opportunities and challenges. March of Dimes data indicates one third of New Mexico counties are designated as a maternity care desert, with a reality that access to perinatal care even in “full access” counties may be unreliable due to a myriad of factors. Together with partners across the state, we are working to design a better way forward and build bridges of care that address inequities and improve maternal and infant outcomes across the state.

Maternity Care Desert graphic showing New Mexico counties that have low, moderate, full, or no access to maternity care.

Our Initiatives

AIM Maternal Safety: Caring for Pregnant and Postpartum People with Substance Use Disorder (active)