Consulting | Perinatal Mental Health screening

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It is best practice to screen pregnant and new moms/birthing people and partners for Perinatal Depression and Anxiety. We will walk you through the business model and build your screening program from the ground up! 

People who use the Ingram Screening business model share:

• A passion for helping people during the perinatal period
• A commitment to providing full-spectrum care in their chosen field
• A thirst for knowledge of best practices and innovative ideas
• A willingness to learn new ways to help new families
• A dedication to recognize, identify, validate, treat, & prevent suffering in any form
• A critical thinking framework, a plan to ask questions, reason through them, and believe in the results
• A belief that every situation is unique and worthy of a deeper dive

Who is this for? 

Adoption Agencies

Birthing Centers (non-hospital based)

Chiropractors

County Health Clinics

Doulas - Pregnancy and Postpartum 

Emergency Room Staff

Home Health Visitors

Lactation Consultants/IBCLC

Labor and Delivery Nurses

Labor and Delivery Units (hospital-based)

Maternal & Child Health Programs

Midwives

Naturopathic Care 

Obstetricians & Gynecologists (OBGYNs)

Obstetric & Gynecology Office Staff

Perinatologists 

Pediatricians

Pediatric Office Staff

Primary Care Physicians/General Practitioners

Surrogacy Centers

Therapists

Women Infants & Children (WIC) Programs

AND MORE! 

Conferences, offices, parenting groups, Associations etc. 

Perinatal:  The entire time frame from pregnancy through one year postpartum

Mood: Depression, Bipolar 1, Bipolar 2, Psychosis

Anxiety: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome

(PTSD), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder

Disorder:  Affects everyday living, gets in the way of daily functioning

1 in 7 mothers/birthing people and 1 in 10 fathers/partners suffer from a PMAD during the perinatal period.

We consider these numbers to be a public health crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), roughly 4 million people give birth in the United States each year. Following prevalence rates for PMADs, that means 800,000 (20%) out of the 4 million will suffer and only 160,000 (20%) will receive treatment. This leaves 600,000 (75%) unidentified and untreated yearly. Screening can help mitigate these numbers.

• First prenatal visit
• At least once in second trimester
• At least once in third trimester
• In the hospital before discharge (or after home birth)
• Six-week postpartum obstetrical visit (or at first postpartum visit)
• Repeated screening at 6 and/or 12 months in OB and primary care settings
• 2, 4, 6 month or 3, 6, 9 month pediatric visits (or sooner)

We have a list of screening tools, what they are used for, sensitivity/specificity statistics, and CPT Billing Codes available for purchase under the 'Order' tab at the top of our page.