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A Mother-friendly Hospital, Birth Center, or Home Birth Service has Clearly Defined Policies and Procedures for Collaborating and Consulting with other Maternity Services and Linking the Mother and Baby to Appropriate Community Resources During Both the Prenatal and the Postpartum Periods
How to Become Mother-friendly : Policies and Procedures for Hospitals, Birth Centers, and Home Birth Services (2014)
  • Judith A. Lothian, Seton Hall University
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Abstract
The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI), developed by the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS), is a wellness model designed to improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. It is an evidence-based mother-, baby-, and family-friendly model that focus on prevention and wellness as alternatives to high-cost screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs. The MFCI is the first and only consensus document on United States (U.S.) maternity care. This chapter provides evidence-based policies and procedures for developing Mother-Friendly Care in maternity care facilities. It presents specific guidelines that can be used as a standard to measure Mother-Friendliness and for marketing purposes. The chapter discusses purposes and procedures of policies such as collaborative care, community resources, and transfer of the midwife-attended planned home birth patient to the hospital maternity service. It assists nurses who want to promote more rapid change on their units toward Mother-Friendly Care.
Keywords
  • birth midwife,
  • Coalition for Improving Maternity Services,
  • CIMS,
  • collaborative care,
  • community resources,
  • evidence-based policies,
  • maternity service,
  • Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative,
  • MFCI
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Publication Date
2014
Editor
Barbara A. Hotelling, Helen A. Gordon
Publisher
Springer Publishing
ISBN
9780826129772
DOI
10.1891/9780826129772.0005
Citation Information
Judith A. Lothian. "A Mother-friendly Hospital, Birth Center, or Home Birth Service has Clearly Defined Policies and Procedures for Collaborating and Consulting with other Maternity Services and Linking the Mother and Baby to Appropriate Community Resources During Both the Prenatal and the Postpartum Periods" New YorkHow to Become Mother-friendly : Policies and Procedures for Hospitals, Birth Centers, and Home Birth Services (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/judith-lothian/10/