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The launch of the TeamBirth initiative at two more health systems in Tulsa, Oklahoma, drew wide attention from the local media and highlighted the effort to ensure women having babies are heard and their needs are met. TeamBirth is the centerpiece initiative of Ariadne Labs’ Delivery Decisions Initiative and aims to improve maternal and neonatal… Continue reading TeamBirth Launch in Tulsa Generates Media Coverage on the Need for Teamwork and Communication for Those Giving Birth
By Avery Plough, MPH; Amber Weiseth, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB; Elizabeth Curtis; Joyce Edmonds, PhD, MPH, RN; Monica Christina Esqueda, PhD; Heather M. Young, PhD, RN, FAAN; Neel Shah, MD, MPP The rapid and unyielding spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed how health care is administered, delivered, and experienced. While this is true across… Continue reading Accelerating Momentum: How COVID-19 Presents an Opportunity to Improve How We Care for Birthing People
In his opening remarks as moderator of a May 12 virtual roundtable on ways health care facilities can design better spaces to prevent the spread of COVID19, Neel Shah, MD, MPP, Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Ariadne Labs, acknowledged that space was something that health care providers generally took for granted. But after… Continue reading MASS Design Group Webinar: Architecture Can Heal: Adapting Healthcare Spaces in Response to COVID-19
Health & Well-being The COVID Resilience Marathon Nomi Levy-Carrick discusses resilience and adversity during the coronavirus pandemic. Pregnancy & Birth How COVID-19 Complicates Pregnancy — Even if You Don’t Have the Virus “Simply because they’re not likely to be severely infected does not mean they aren’t affected,” says Neel Shah, Director of Ariadne’s Delivery Decisions… Continue reading Community Resources
Ariadne Labs and Boston College School of Nursing will launch a new project to help nurses use data to understand how their practices influence childbirth outcomes. The new work is made possible by a grant from the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation’s Hillman Innovations in Care program, launched in 2014 to support bold, evidence-based interventions… Continue reading New project will help nurses use data to improve childbirth safety
Today Ariadne Labs launches Expecting More, a national campaign that aims to raise our collective expectations of the care and support people deserve while starting or growing their families. The campaign’s website Expecting More provides a platform for resources and commentary on the realities people face during the particularly vulnerable period when starting and growing… Continue reading Ariadne Labs launches Expecting More campaign to encourage support for families
Kelly and Michael Davoli delivered their son, Michael, at South Shore Hospital, one of four pilot sites testing tools, including the Labor and Birth Planning Board, created by Ariadne’s Team Birth Project. Team Birth’s tactics have gotten widespread media attention. A string of articles and news stories citing Ariadne Labs and its partners is… Continue reading Media roundup: Team Birth Project gains national attention
Dramatic rescues by heroic surgeons and tear-jerking twists of fate are the bread and butter of TV medical dramas. A recent episode of Fox’s “The Resident” delivered all that and something more: a maternal death based on a true story and a presentation of solutions that reflects recommendations by Ariadne Lab’s Delivery Decisions Initiative.… Continue reading Heartbreaking story tied to maternal health crisis hits prime time
At dawn on the fifth day after Christine Poland was admitted to the hospital, a doctor and team of nurses and midwives approached her bed. Having been up all night from yet another labor induction treatment, Poland was emotionally and physically drained. The doctor, she says, told her the latest treatment had failed and to… Continue reading Birth right: Health care experts convene to analyze tactics for bettering safety and dignity during childbirth
FEBRUARY 4, 2019 BOSTON – A targeted effort to make hospital cesarean delivery rates transparent and understood by women increased their awareness of this important quality measure, but did not drive them to choose hospitals with lower rates, according to a new study. The randomized controlled trial of 18,293 women was published Monday in the… Continue reading Study finds campaign to educate women on hospital C-section rates does not change their choice of hospitals