An Unsatisfying Birth Story.
“Patient-centered care” is bantered about at policy meetings at the clinic, hospital, county, and national levels. It means something different in each healthcare setting and to each provider and to every patient.
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The Stigma behind Maternal Mortality
…no checklist will fix the internal, intrinsic beliefs that lead providers to provide less, to listen less, to pull the first trigger that gets that checklist going less–for black women.
Community-Based Midwives and Hospital Systems: A Case for Partnership (The Notes)
These notes are extracted from This Article A set of good vitals and an uncomplicated medical history are not remedies for social inequities or lifelong lack of access to healthcare education and navigation, or accessible, timely, effective, and therapeutic interventions. When a patient presents with a medical complication, a midwife can identify it and ensure…
Community-Based Midwives and Hospital Systems: A Case for Partnership
Click Here to read just the notes from this article Community-based midwives are held to particular and sometimes unjustifiable standards by the healthcare community. They are under tremendous pressure to have perfect outcomes while serving the same communities who face the disparities that lead to premature birth, infant mortality, and maternal morbidities experienced so often…
Access in Healthcare
I have several posts written that haven’t been posted. This is partly due to me trying to find my space in this new space, and partly because as we learn about and settle into a new practice in a new community, there is not much time for editing. This article is from March of 2018…
GBS Prevention
Illustrations by Noa Ilan: follow @ilan_noa on Twitter for more Read the long article See the Infographics up-close This post examines the role of preventative health care in the inhibition of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection. It uses the term “mother” for simplicity’s sake although babies have all kinds of parents who identify in all…
GBS Prevention: The Real Deal (an article)
The stakes are high. With all of the science supporting the idea that we can impact outcomes through simple and inexpensive measures, we cannot disregard the first and best options we have to address a disease. And especially where that prevention, aimed at reducing illness for the baby will also dramatically improve the health of the mother.
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