The opioid crisis — now one of the leading causes of maternal mortality — continues to rage in Tennessee.
A newly created program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is aiming to address the increasing toll the opioid crisis is having on pregnant and postpartum women and their infants.
Named Firefly — which signifies lighting a path for mothers in recovery and their infants — the program unites and expands existing clinical efforts dedicated to pregnant women with opioid use disorder and their infants, including the Vanderbilt Maternal Addiction Recovery Program (VMARP) and Team Hope, a VUMC program to optimize care for opioid-exposed newborns.
Through funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), in conjunction with TennCare, Firefly provides additional resources to optimize care for this patient population.