Alyssa Fritz, MPH, RD, CLC

Division of Health Policy and Management
University of Minnesota
2221 University Ave. SE
Suite 350
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Current Projects - (2)

Monitoring Obstetric Unit Closures and Measuring Closure Impacts to Support Rural Maternity Care Access
This project will create a public health data infrastructure with annually updated information on the loss of hospital-based obstetric services, merging policy-relevant hospital and county characteristics with transportation and geographic data, and measuring trends over time in the loss of hospital-based obstetric care.
Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Healthcare access, Hospitals and clinics, Maternal health, Women
Neonatal Care at Rural Hospitals: Describing Access, Closures and Levels of Childbirth-Related Care
This project will describe access to childbirth-related care for families living in rural and urban communities; it will document access to neonatal care and the levels of that care, describe rural counties that have lost access to neonatal care, and identify rural counties without access to either obstetric or neonatal services.
Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Children and adolescents, Healthcare access, Hospitals and clinics, Maternal health, Quality, Women

Rural/Urban Differences in Rates and Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Screening Among Pregnant and Postpartum United States Residents
Journal Article
University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Date: 08/2023
This paper uses the 2016-2020 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) data to describe rates and predictors of perinatal intimate partner violence (IPV) and rates and predictors of not being screened for abuse among rural and urban IPV victims who gave birth.