Stepping up safety and teamwork for perinatal care, starting in communities.

  • We are QI experts who focus on community-based perinatal care models.
  • We offer tools, coaching, and community for leaders working toward excellence and equity in maternal and perinatal health in all care settings.
  • We do it because we can have safe and respectful care everywhere, if we work together.

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Is your staff trained in intermittent auscultation?

Primary Maternity Care and the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement (PQI) have partnered to offer a special Step Up Together® edition of Intermittent Auscultation Simulation-Based Education—a virtual course designed for nurses, midwives, paramedics, physicians, and other clinical team members committed to providing safe, patient-centered care during labor.

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Our Offerings

Whether you are looking to do it yourself or need loads of support, Step Up Together can help you meet your goals for safety, teamwork, and respectful care for all.

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Tools

Drill Kits

Easy-to-use, modular Drill Kits have everything you need to plan, run, and debrief a drill for a clinical emergency that involves a transfer from a community-based setting to a hospital.

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Tools + Community

Focused Action Cycles

Meet with Step Up Together Faculty and a team of practices and facilities around the country to kick off a drill cycle, run the drill in your own community using the Drill Kit, then participate in one of our signature Community Debrief sessions to benefit from the implementation experience of other teams.

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Tools + Community + Coaching
Tools + Community + Coaching

Action Collaboratives

Get ongoing coaching and implementation expertise from Step Up Together Faculty as you undertake a Full Transfer Drill as part of a cohort, participate in multiple Community Debriefs, and translate learnings into quality improvement initiatives.

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What is Step Up Together?

  • QI Experts

    We are QI experts who focus on community-based perinatal care models.
  • Tools, community & coaching

    We offer tools, coaching, and community for leaders working toward excellence and equity in maternal and perinatal health in all care settings.
  • Working together for safe & respectful care

    We do it because we can have safe and respectful care everywhere, if we work together.

Featured Blog Posts

Step Up Together for PQCs: From Drills to Sustainable System Change

Perinatal Quality Collaboratives (PQCs) exist to turn evidence into action so maternal and infant health care gets safer and more equitable. The National Network of PQCs (NNPQC) and the CDC describe PQCs as state or multi-state networks that rapidly improve care through data-guided implementation. After more than a decade of focus on hospital-based preparedness, there

AABC Birth Institute Roundup

The American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) has stood by their mission to promote and support freestanding birth centers and alongside midwifery units in all communities to achieve a high-value model of evidence-based care that is equitable, safe, and respectful for over 40 years. I have been fortunate in my career to have worked in