A Birth Center Primer for Hospitals: Promoting Seamless Collaboration Between Hospital and Freestanding Birth Centers
Program Information
This virtual learning series by Primary Maternity Care will help hospital leaders develop a strategy to strengthen their relationships with freestanding birth centers within their communities or establishing a new birth center. Designed to operationalize critical concepts and tools from the Hospital Guide to Integrating the Freestanding Birth Center, each of the six learning sessions will highlight the work of experts who have led integration efforts across the country.
- Session 1: Assessing Readiness and Centering Equity in Your Hospital’s Birth Center Strategy
- Session 2: Developing Eligibility Criteria and Collaborative Care Guidelines
- Session 3: Designing Transport Workflows and Maximizing Collaboration Across Facilities
- Session 4: Beyond Transfer: Exploring Financial, Programmatic and Administrative Integration Between Birth Centers and Hospitals
- Session 5: Preventing and Learning From Sentinel Events
- Session 6: Planning and Conducting Effective Emergency Drills for Community Birth
Target Audience
This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- EMS Providers
- Doulas
AMA Designation Statement
Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. designates this Live activity for a maximum of 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Schedule
- Session 1: Assessing Readiness and Centering Equity in Your Hospital’s Birth Center Strategy - Friday, 9/8 at 1-2:30PM EST
- Session 2: Developing Eligibility Criteria and Collaborative Care Guidelines - Wednesday, 9/20 at 6-7PM EST
- Session 3: Designing Transport Workflows and Maximizing Collaboration Across Facilities - Tuesday, 10/3 at 1-2PM EST
- Session 4: Beyond Transfer: Exploring Financial, Programmatic and Administrative Integration Between Birth Centers and Hospitals - Thursday, 10/19 at 2-3PM EST
- Session 5: Preventing and Learning From Sentinel Events - Monday, 10/30 from 3.-4pm EST
- Session 6: Planning and Conducting Effective Emergency Drills for Community Birth - Monday, 11/13 at 4-5PM EST
Faculty
- Nashira Baril, MPH
- Holly Christensen, MSN, CNM
- Ashley Couse, INHC, CBE, CD
- Melissa Denmark, MA, LM
- Tim Fisher, MD, M.H.C.D.S.
- Nikia Grayson, DNP, MSN, MPH, MA, CNM, FNP-C
- Steven Hall, MBA
- Jennifer 'Jen' Johnson, MS, CNM
- Pooja Mehta MD, MSHP, FACOG
- Julie Moon, CNM, APRN
- Chris Morris, MD
- Dale Reisner, MD
- Amy Romano, MBA, MSN, CNM, FACNM
- Susan Stapleton, CNM, DNP, FACNM
- Sarah Stetina, MSN, CNM
- Richard Thigpen, MD, FACOG
- Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA
Primary Maternity Care Planning Team
- Julia Cogdell, MSW, LMSW
- Alexa Dougherty, MSN, CNM
- Claudia Jennings
- Amy Romano, MBA, MSN, CNM, FACNM
- Brynn Rubinstein, MPH
Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.
Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.
Faculty Disclosures
No faculty disclosed a relevant financial relationship for this program.
Claudia Jennings
Julia Cogdell, MSW, LMSW
Alexa Dougherty, MSN, PHN, CNM
Claudia Jennings
Amy Romano, MBA, MSN, CNM, FACNM
Brynn Rubinstein, MPH
Nashira Baril, MPH
Holly Christensen, CNM, MSN
Julia Cogdell, MSW, LMSW
Ashley Couse, B.S., INHC, CBE, CD
Melissa Denmark, MA, LM
Timothy Fisher, MD, MS
Jennifer Johnson, MS, CNM
Pooja Mehta, MD, MSHP
Julie Moon, CNM, APRN
Dale Reisner
Amy Romano, MBA, MSN, CNM, FACNM
Susan Stapleton, DNP, CNM
Sarah Stetina, APRN-FPA, CNM
Richard Thigpen, MD, FACOG
Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity was planned and implemented by Primary Maternity Care and Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. and its Weitzman Institute and is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).
Available Credit
- 6.50 AAPA Category I CMEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians at its activities via Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
- 6.50 ANCCThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
- 6.50 Participation Hour(s)If you are not able to utilize any of the above credit types, you are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records.