March of Dimes for Healthcare Professionals

Essential resources to improve maternal and infant health.
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March of Dimes is dedicated to equipping healthcare providers with trusted, accessible, and culturally responsive resources that enhance care and support patients. Our provider catalog offers a comprehensive overview of tools designed to promote healthy pregnancies and strong starts. Whether you’re guiding a patient through pregnancy, educating on postpartum health, or addressing complex risk factors, you’ll find resources to inform, engage, and help improve outcomes.

Programs and partnerships

Advocate for policies impacting women, infants, children, and families across a wide range of issues at the federal, state, and local level.
Becoming a Mom, or Comenzando Bien® in Spanish, is a community-based curriculum that provides facilitators with lessons and resources to facilitate group prenatal education.
Our Low Dose, Big Benefits™ initiative educates healthcare professionals and patients at risk of preeclampsia how taking low dose aspirin throughout pregnancy can offer significant benefits—giving moms and babies the healthy start they deserve.
Our mobile health partnerships enable health systems to deliver prenatal, pre-conception, postpartum, and newborn care to women and families living in maternity care deserts and those at highest risk of inadequate prenatal care.
Healthcare professionals are vital to transforming maternal and infant health outcomes—and the Mom and Baby Action Network (M-BAN) offers a unique space to do just that.
Through NICU Family Support®, we equip hospital partners with evidence-based programming and a variety of online and in-person resources on family-centered care while babies are in the NICU and during their transition home.
Supportive Pregnancy Care® training, framework, and tools support healthcare providers to implement a sustainable model of group prenatal care that works best for their practice and the pregnant people they serve.

Professional education

Enhance knowledge and improve practice with March of Dimes’ trusted educational opportunities for healthcare professionals.
Tap into a unique learning experience with March of Dimes’ award-winning Awareness to Action: Dismantling Bias in Maternal and Infant Healthcare® training.

Patient education resources

Connect patients with It Starts With Mom, our national maternal health education portal, designed to provide women with the information, resources, and community support they need throughout pregnancy.
One in 25 pregnant people develop preeclampsia, and many begin pregnancy with chronic conditions that increase their risk. Help raise awareness of the proven benefits of low dose aspirin in reducing that risk.
Promote healthy pregnancies with March of Dimes educational resources. These trusted, evidence-based tools are designed to inform, support, and equip patients at every step of their pregnancy journey.
Our postpartum education and support content helps patients navigate the postpartum period by providing anticipatory guidance and relevant health and wellness information to support their ongoing care and well-being.
Our educational resources help families make informed decisions about routine and maternal vaccinations, and equip healthcare professionals with trusted, evidence-based tools to support vaccine confidence and keep moms and babies healthy.
Get families off to a great start on their maternal and parenting journey with the Compass by March of Dimes™ app.

Awards and scholarships

March of Dimes offers annual scholarships to undergraduate nursing students and nurses registered in graduate nursing programs focused on advancing maternal and infant health.
March of Dimes supports some of the brightest doctors, scientists, academics, and computational experts in the world with our research awards and grants.

Data and reports

Get the latest information to educate and advocate for better mom and baby outcomes with the release of our annual March of Dimes Report Card.
Discover insights into the state of maternity care access in our country with Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the US.
PeriStats is a free online tool developed by the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center. It offers up-to-date statistics and reports on key topics such as preterm birth, maternal and infant mortality, and health insurance coverage.

Research

Our research programs address the multi-faceted nature of the US maternal and infant health crisis through diversified funding that supports discovery, translational and social science research, and data collection and analysis.