Minnesota Excellence in Birth Registration Conference

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Minnesota Excellence in Birth Registration
Conference
Attendees included

• Hospital Birth Registrars
• Hospital Administrators
• Hospital Social Workers
• Home Birth Midwives

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Celebrate Excellence
This conference provides

• An opportunity to celebrate the good work of our
  birth registrars.
• Training that helps improve
• The quality of birth data collection
• The timeliness of filing birth records

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Agenda Items

• Why Birth Data Matters
• Best Practices Training
• Jet-age Birth Registration electronic health
  record system data transfer

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Agenda Items

• The ology of Birth Registration
• Terminology - what does this data field mean
• Why do I need to enter all this stuff?
• difficult data fields to collect
• The Power of Paternity Hour
• Recognition of Parentage
• Fathers Adoption Registry

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Agenda Items

• The ABCs of Events in Birth Registration
• A amendments, adoptions
• B birth - delayed, home, en-route, safe place
• C corrections
• D death fetal, newborn
• E EMR where to find the data
• F filing records on time

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2008 Minnesota Birth Registration Improvements
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2008 Awards

• Excellence In Birth Registration
• 39 Hospitals
• Data Quality Standard Award
• 25 Hospitals
• Special Recognition Award
• 7 Hospitals

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2008 Awards

• Timeliness Awards
• Consistency
• 11 Hospitals
• Greatest Improvement
• 11 Hospitals
• 100 Timely Filing
• 11 Hospitals

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Outcomes that Count in 2009
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2007Typical Day In Minnesota

• 202 babies are born.
• 80 were first births.
• 13 babies weigh less than 5.5 pounds.
• 29 were born to mothers 35 or older.
• 14 were born to mothers 19 or younger.
• 4 were without prenatal care.

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Legal Registrations2007

• Births 73,675 107 Hospitals
• 510 Home Births
• Deaths 37,086 560 Funeral Homes
• Recognition of Parentage (ROP) 19,000

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Birth Certificates Issued In2007

• 359,389

110 Local Issuance Office
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Electronic Certifications Verifications

• Social Security
• State Medicaid Offices
• State Drivers License Offices
• US Passport
• US Office of Personnel Management

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Birth Record Replacements

• Adoptions 1644
• Court Ordered Adjudications 2421
• Recognition of Parentage 6130

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Delivery of Birth Data

• SIDS Center
• Maternal and Child Health
• Newborn Screening
• IDEPC
• AIDS/STD
• Department of Human Services
• - ROPs,child support, adoptions, Medicaid
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Social Security Administration

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Delivery of Birth DataContinued

• 50 Public Health Nursing Agencies
• Inter-jurisdictional Exchange
• 100 School Districts
• Legislators Office
• University of Minnesota

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Changes Within the Next 12 Months

• New ROP form to be faxed Coming soon
• Training on the MRC Fall 2009
• January 1, 2010
• Minnesota Registration Certification (MRC)
• ROP will be produced from the MRC
• New Questions on the Birth Record (2003 Standard)

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What Stays the Same

• Teen Mothers
• Older Mothers
• Parents Who Married
• Parents Who Arent Married
• Healthy Babies
• Babies With Problems
• Mothers Who Dont Like To Answer Our Personal
  Questions

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Message for the Day

• Data Quality
• Complete Records
• Filed within Five Days
• ROPs
• Excellence in Birth Registration

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• The End