One question we hear from past Step Up Together participants is: “We already did an Action Collaborative. Is there any reason to do another one?” In most cases, the answer is yes. The goal of Step Up Together has never been to conduct a single drill and call it done. Like any aspect of emergency

When hospitals are invited to participate in a Step Up Together Action Collaborative, the first question is often practical: what’s in it for us? Hospitals are managing workforce shortages, high acuity, financial pressure, and competing quality priorities. Community birth transfer improvement may seem like one more thing to add to the list. But this work