LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky is launching a new initiative designed to help at-risk mothers.
The Kentucky Blue Band Project is aimed at improving the process for recognizing and treating severe hypertension during pregnancy and postpartum period.
Baptist Health Louisville is one of the first hospitals in Kentucky to take part in the project. Starting Oct. 1, mothers with hypertensive disorders during pregnancy that have delivered at Baptist Health Louisville will be issued a blue wrist band that lets other medical providers know that the patient had high blood pressure during pregnancy.
"This is important because patients who have hypertension or high blood pressure during their pregnancies can continue to have those same issues after their pregnancy and so they're still in a window of risk that they could have a seizure or have a stroke or something that can be really life altering occur to them," said Erin Grant with Baptist Health Louisville Manager. "So it's really important that the other people in our community like our EMS providers people in the emergency department, their primary care doctor recognizes that they are still in that window of needing that attention."
The Blue Band Project rolls out statewide January after the pilot program begins this fall.
For more information on the Kentucky Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Task Force, click here.
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