High-risk pregnancy and neonatal care.

The delivery of high-risk maternal and neonatal homecare has been shown to be a cost-effective model of care delivery. The homecare management of preterm labor, placenta previa. PIH, and hyperemesis gravidarum has proven to be a safe interventional strategy with successful clinical outcomes. Studies of home uterine activity monitoring and phototherapy have demonstrated that the use of advanced technologic devices is spearheading the drive to reduce hospital lengths of stay, enabling the safe return of the patient to the home setting, under the watchful supervision of the high-tech homecare nurse. High-risk mothers and their newborns can be assisted to achieve optimal clinical outcomes through a coordination of services provided by an interdisciplinary team of health professionals led by the homecare nurse.