Vision, Goals, Values
Vision
Delivering excellent outcomes for low risk patients and their families.
Goals
Creating lasting positive impact by reducing maternal mortality through increasing birth at freestanding, midwife-led birth centers.
Expanding education and access to quality care for families in areas suited to sustain birth center care, through tested models and ongoing quality assurance.
Build centers focused on community needs, and improving individual healthcare experience.
Offerings
Prenatal
Support through pregnancy with extended appointment times, ongoing education, and connections to local resources
Birth
Respectful midwife care in home-like suites to clients seeking low-intervention birth
Well Body
Trauma-informed well-body care for people looking for routine gynecological care regardless of their intent to become pregnant
Values
Belonging
Support policies that keep family groups together for span of care
Recognizing that families are defined by the people inside them, and each family is deserving of compassion and dignity
Keeping the whole person focused in the creation of service plans centering the client experience at every touch point of care, and beyond
Continued advocacy for fair insurance reimbursements and expanded coverage
Offering care to clients based on individual health histories, to ensure as many safe options as possible
Finding strategic locations for birth centers that offer access to transfer hospital partners should it be needed
Integrity
Committed to care practices that have client safety centered and are supported by evidence and backed by CABC's accreditation process
Routinely offering review, training, and continued evidence-based education to influence the best possible outcomes to those in our care
Collaborating with hospital and community partners, and other interprofessional relationships, that foster understanding, teamwork, and better health outcomes
Respect
Creating operationally sound policies and procedures for clinical care based on current evidence, and disciplined financial systems using current research and tested quality control best practices
Forming integrated relationships that position each unique birth center as a trusted community leader for healthcare
Trust
Committed to care practices that have client safety centered and are supported by evidence
Routinely offering review, training, and continued education to influence the best possible outcomes to those in our care
Collaborating with hospital partners and other interprofessional relationships that foster understanding, teamwork, and respectful interactions, honoring each unique role and strength of each
