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.

Activity summary

Available credit:

6.50 AAPA Category I CME
Through 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 ANCC
Through 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.

Activity opens:

08/07/2023

Activity expires:

01/31/2024

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.