Robyn D’Oria, MA, RNC, APN
Chief Executive Officer,
Central Jersey Family Health Consortium
Robyn D’Oria is the Chief Executive Officer of the Central Jersey Family Health Consortium a 501(c)3, not-for-profit agency. The Consortium is a regionalized network of agencies and providers involved in the delivery of perinatal and pediatric services in central New Jersey whose mission is to promote an equitable and healthy future for families through services, advocacy, education and collaboration. Robyn has over 40 years of experience in maternal child health in a variety of roles including Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist and Director of Women’s and Children’s Services. She has experience over the past 20 years collaborating with community-based organizations, health care providers, governmental organizations and consumers to asses maternal and child health needs and to provide services and programs which improve the health of women of childbearing age.
Robyn led her organization’s effort to implement CenteringPregnancy® in NJ by receiving a four year, $1.7 million Strong Start grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve pregnancy outcomes. The goal of this program was to evaluate various methods of providing prenatal care to see what program(s) were associated with the best birth outcomes. CJFHC served as the convener to implement the model New Jersey. NJ’s Strong Start project supported group care for women enrolled in Medicaid at seven participating provider partner sites. In total, 1,193 women participated in the Centering Program. Results indicated Strong Start was effective in producing significantly improved birth outcomes for participants particularly for Black and Hispanic women.
Robyn is the immediate past NJ Section Chair for the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), was a member of AWHONN’s Expert Panel on Maternal Mortality, serves as a consultant for AWHONN and their Merck for Mothers Postbirth Warning Signs Initiative and is a member of AWHONN’s Public Policy Committee. She has served as a core partner and facilitator for the American College of Obstetrician/Gynecologists (ACOG) for the Alliance for Innovation in Maternal Health (AIM) a national quality improvement program aimed at improving patient safety in obstetrics. She is a Board member and President-elect for the Preeclampsia Foundation, member of the Executive Advisory Board for the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement, co-chair of the NJ Perinatal Quality Collaborative, member of the NJ Maternal Mortality and Review Committee as well as the Governor appointed NJ Maternal Care Quality Collaborative. Robyn has been integrally involved in developing and promoting quality improvement work not only locally but nationally having published and spoken on efforts to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity.