Closing Gaps in Maternal Mental Health

The Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health is a national think tank, nonprofit organization advancing policies that support a health care system that routinely detects and treats maternal mental health disorders for every mother, every time.

Hospital Whole Mom™ Standards

The hospital best practices for maternal mental health survey was drafted as a means for individual hospitals to survey themselves, or for a community to survey all of its birth hospitals.

Open Survey

Become a Whole Mom Hospital

Hospitals may work toward adopting maternal mental health hospital best practices in the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health Whole Mom Survey to become a "Whole Mom Hospital." Hospitals must complete and submit the attestation in the survey by June 30 or November 30 of each year to be recognized as a Whole Mom hospital each year.

Whole Mom Hospital Designations

Whole Mom Hospital
Attested to meeting all of the basic Whole Mom standards.
Advanced Whole Mom Hospital
Attested to meeting all of the basic Whole Mom standards and at least 1 additional advanced standard, which involves treating mothers suffering from a maternal mental health disorder.
Preliminary Whole Mom Hospital
Attested to meeting at least 50% of the basic Whole Mom standards and plans on reassessing to earn the full Whole Mom Hospital designation in 12 months or less.

Send your questions and completed survey to info@PolicyCenterMMH.org

Revised 3/2023 view updates.