Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Our thoughts are with you and your families as you do your best to weather the COVID-19 crisis.
Like so many organizations, the Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies has been engaged in a conversation about how to stay true to our commitments while adapting to the realities of a health care system that has had to shift priorities in ways we couldn’t have anticipated even two months ago.
In light of this new reality, we will continue with our current quality improvement programs, but will shift deadlines, expectations, and metrics as needed. The leadership and committees will continue to meet, but will do so remotely and in some cases less often. We will continue to communicate about our initiatives through our newsletter and on social media, but will do so less frequently than before. We will also post perinatal-specific resources on dealing with COVID-19 on our website.
Paid staff at UT System will continue to dedicate their time to TCHMB as before, but much of the clinical leadership on the committees and in the hospitals and clinics may not be able to dedicate as much time as they were prior. And we will all continue to adapt as the situation changes.
Stay safe, and please reach out with questions and suggestions.
Sincerely,
Michael E. Speer, MD
Chair, Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies
David Lakey, MD
Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, The University of Texas System
Letter from the Chair and Executive Sponsor