Dr. Andrew Rubenstein is the Academic Chair of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Dignity Health Medical Group at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, and an Associate Professor and Vice-Chair at the Creighton University School of Medicine-Phoenix Campus.
Rubenstein completed a residency at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.
As a women’s health care leader, Dr. Rubenstein’s vision is that the maternal and child healthcare teams must come together to ensure that every care setting has a systematic and comprehensive framework for obstetrical and perinatal care delivery and delivers this within the health equity lens. By focusing on improving and monitoring quality metrics, health equity and standardization of health care processes, Dr. Rubenstein has emerged as an early champion in helping to improve obstetrical safety.
Alert 42
Thursday, Sept. 22, │ 10:05 a.m.
The actions of physicians and nurses have a significant impact on patient outcomes, especially in one of the most vulnerable populations - maternity and maternal health care. For this reason, Dr. Rubenstein and his Dignity Health at St. Joseph’s Hospital team designed a collaborative partnership with their emergency services department to create a program that recognizes recently delivered maternity patients that have given birth within the last 42 days. “Alert 42” mobilizes the obstetrical care teams to focus on the care of patients at their point of entry - the emergency department - and perform best practices to evaluate, stabilize, and treat this high-risk population.
Combating Maternal Morbidity & Mortality as a StateThursday, Sept. 22, │ 1:15 p.m. Facilitating with co-presenters Katherine Glaser, M.D., MPH, and Stacie Wood Maternal mortality and morbidity is a growing concern for U.S. hospitals and communities. Each year, 50,000 people suffer a severe maternal complication, which in fact is higher in people of color. Annually, 700 people die from giving birth. Obstetrics remained the only service line open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlighted the opportunity hospitals now have to dig into the root causes of poor maternal health, especially in rural communities. Poor maternal health outcomes are rooted in complex, pre-existing clinical conditions, access to maternity services, societal factors and structural racism. In this dialogue, learn about the AIM Collaborative, consisting of 34 Arizona hospitals coming together to apply evidence-based practices to combat pregnancy-related deaths and underlying factors associated with it. Experts will share steps they are taking to reach the collaborative’s goal of reducing complications of hypertension by 20% before the end of 2022. Additionally, hear from participating hospitals about their health equity efforts, as they navigate ways to identify and address disparities and gaps in culturally appropriate maternal care. |
Maternal Anti-Hypertensive Drugs: Ask the Experts!Thursday, Sept. 22, │ 2 p.m. Facilitating with co-presenters Sarah Basinger, RN, BSN, MHI, Katherine Glaser, M.D., MPH, Cathleen Harris, M.D., MPH, Cheryl K. Roth, Ph.D., WHNP-BC, RNC-OB, RNFA, and Stacie Wood, MSN Expert panelists come together to address roadblocks to medication utilization. In this Q&A style session, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss barriers in achieving the AIM goal of hypertensive treatment in under 60 minutes. |