Take These Steps to Optimize Postpartum Care

Looking objectively at postpartum care in the U.S., it looks like a series of inter-disciplinary visits without a continuity of care or system of communication between the disciplines. Even if the practitioners are the same, the communication between inpatient and outpatient women’s health care is inconsistent. This is why the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has released a committee opinion on optimizing postpartum care within the OB/GYN community.