Clinical & Community Strategy

The Dalio Center, in partnership with the Women’s Health Service Line, the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physician and Surgeons, and NewYork-Presbyterian’s Department of Quality and Patient Safety launched the Maternal Health PANDA to bring together interventions to reduce disparities in postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). The program awarded $600k in funding over a one-year funding cycle.

The 11 selected projects for the inaugural Maternal Health PANDA include:

• AMPLIFY Community Engagement and Provider Education: The NYP/Weill Cornell team is empowering community members and clinicians with education and tools for patientinformed care.
• CenteringPregnancy Group Prenatal Care: NYP Brooklyn Methodist is implementing group prenatal care and peersupport models to strengthen engagement for birthing patients.
• Cultural Simulation Series: Through evidencebased simulations, the NYP Brooklyn Methodist team is standardizing PPH response and enhancing cultural responsiveness in clinical care.
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM) Observer: NYP/Weill Cornell is piloting a dedicated Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM) Observer using PeriGen technology to reduce provider bias and advance proactive maternal safety.
• Implicit Bias Training: The NYP Lower Manhattan team is embedding equity principles into clinical protocols through a series of Courage to Care workshops.
• Intrapartum Doulas: NYP Morgan Stanley is expanding access to intrapartum doulas by supporting trainees toward Medicaid certification, with the goal of reducing complications during childbirth.
• Prenatal Iron Screening: NYP Ambulatory teams are conducting focus groups to better understand patient perceptions of prenatal iron screening and address iron deficiencyrelated contributors to PPH.
• Rapid Response for PPH: NYP Allen Hospital is standardizing emergency preparedness by deploying fully stocked PPH Rapid Response carts to support timely, coordinated care.
• TeamSTEPPS for Maternal Safety: At NYP Hudson Valley, staff are receiving evidencebased communication and teamwork training to strengthen maternal safety.
• Simulation Lab Expansion: NYP Queens is launching a new simulation series with the MamaAnne manikin to enhance clinical education and reduce disparities.
• Spinning Babies Workshops: Across all NYP campuses, teams are integrating physiologic fetalpositioning techniques to increase vaginal birth rates, improving outcomes and reducing PPH disparities.

Maternal Health PANDA Framework

The Dalio Center, in partnership with the Children’s Hospital of New York at NewYork-Presbyterian, the Pediatrics Service Line, the Departments of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physician and Surgeons, and NewYork-Presbyterian’s Department of Quality and Patient Safety launched the Pediatric PANDA to focus on the shared goal of ‘Healthy Kids at Home’. The program awarded over $1.2M in funding over a two-year funding cycle.

The 8 selected projects for the inaugural Pediatric PANDA include:

• Autism Medical Home: NYP Westchester Behavioral Health and NYP Queens are developing an Autism Medical Home program in the Theresa Lang primary care clinic to improve care for children with autism.
• BOCA SANA (Bridging Oral health and Community Advocacy to Support Access and Navigation Assistance): The Columbia University College of Dental Medicine will expand support services at the pediatric community dental clinic to address the inequitable burden of untreated dental disease among low-income children in Northern Manhattan.
• Care Pathways for Children at Risk of Agitation: NYP Morgan Stanley is developing and implementing a standardized inpatient agitation pathway to reduce agitation-related adverse events.
• Home Ventilation Program for Continued Caregiver Education and Support: NYP Morgan Stanley is creating a program to educate and support caregivers of children with tracheostomy throughout the procedure and during the follow-up period.
• Pediatric Asthma Linkage to Care Program: NYP Morgan Stanley is implementing universal screening for all pediatric patients in the ED to connect high-utilizing patients with severe asthma to pediatric specialists and community-based organizations.
• PICU Telehealth Follow-Up Clinics: NYP Komansky will expand access to the PICU Follow-Up Clinic by integrating a child life specialist who will identify eligible patients during rounds, educate families, and schedule appointments. Additionally, NYP Morgan Stanley will expand services for post-PICU patients, addressing the complex medical, psychological, and social needs of children after receiving critical care treatment.
• Transforming Outcomes Through Social Drivers of Health-Responsive Care: NYP Komansky will implement a food insecurity intervention, including home food delivery, for recently hospitalized children who receive followup care in the pediatric clinic.
• Vaccine Education: Clinical leads at NYP/Columbia and NYP/Weill Cornell are developing an enterprise-wide initiative to address vaccine hesitancy, including the development of patient-centered educational materials designed to support families in making fully informed decisions.

Cardiac sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease in which granulomas form in the heart, disrupting electrical and mechanical function and increasing the risk of arrhythmia and heart failure. Black and African American patients are 2.5 times more likely to develop sarcoidosis and often experience more severe disease and poorer outcomes.

In 2025, an enterprise-wide workgroup of cardiologists and Dalio Center data analysts created a cardiac sarcoidosis registry within our Epic EMR, a standardized outpatient order set, and new patient education materials. Next steps include operationalizing the registry, building a performance dashboard, and advancing patient‑facing educational content.

‍The Dalio Center is supporting the rollout of a new EMR‑generated heart failure report that identifies patients across eight acute care hospitals who may benefit from a heart failure consultation. The initial phase focuses on using the report to establish baseline data and highlight priority areas for improvement, with the goal of ensuring that all eligible patients receive timely, appropriate care.

‍Work on hypertension began in 2025 through a partnership with the Ambulatory Quality team. Together, we have been reviewing hypertension control quality measures across primary care sites and have identified several opportunities for improvement. In 2026, the teams will build on this foundation by focusing on improving hypertension management and control across our ambulatory practices, working to close identified equity gaps and strengthen long‑term cardiovascular outcomes.