Jonathan Wolinsky, MPP is the Assistant Director of Project Management for the Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) where he oversees project management, planning, and finance, for the team. Jonathan works across the portfolio of DDI projects to support the teams work from project design to funding requests to contracting and deliverable submission. Prior to joining Ariadne… Continue reading Jonathan Wolinsky
Trisha Short is the Clinical Implementation Specialist of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Ariadne Labs. Trisha has been an obstetrical nurse for 17 years specializing in high risk obstetrics, quality improvement and is a certified AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Instructor. She joined the Ariadne team after leading the successful implementation of TeamBirth at her hospital… Continue reading Trisha Short
Forbes interviews the filmmakers of Aftershock, a documentary covering the black maternal health crisis.
In labor and delivery units, physicians frequently receive data feedback on the cesarean birth rates of the patients under their care as an evidence-based strategy to encourage practices changes that improve safety and outcomes. Nurse Impact is a portfolio of projects, led by the Delivery Decisions Initiative and the Boston College Connell School of Nursing,… Continue reading Nurse Impact Publishes Survey Results from the National Labor and Delivery Nurse Survey
Amber Weiseth speaks with FOX23 in Tulsa on the TeamBirth care process being implemented in every delivering hospital in the city.
TeamBirth is an innovative approach to improve communication and teamwork in childbirth pioneered by Ariadne Labs’ Delivery Decision Initiative (DDI). The care process, which relies on a patient-facing planning board and team huddles, ensures people giving birth and clinicians have shared input and understanding into decision-making during labor, delivery and postpartum. Three recently published papers… Continue reading Three Papers Detail Design, Test, and Spread of TeamBirth
In March of 2022, hospitals in Oklahoma — including Hillcrest Hospital South, Hillcrest Claremore Hospital, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Bailey Medical Center, and Mercy Hospital — launched TeamBirth. Developed by Ariadne Labs’ Delivery Decisions Initiative, TeamBirth is a communication and teamwork process that closes gaps in communication that challenge the safety and dignity of… Continue reading TeamBirth Launches in Oklahoma Hospitals
The Delivery Decisions Initiative publishes on the feasibility, acceptability, and safety of the TeamBirth care process in Birth.
In October 2021, Amber Weiseth, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB, became the new Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) at Ariadne Labs and the lab’s only director with a nursing background, “which I believe is an honor,” Weiseth said. Weiseth brings 18 years experience as a perinatal nurse to DDI, a research and social impact program focused… Continue reading A Q&A with Amber Weiseth, Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative
The Delivery Decisions Initiative team published work in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice on using a human-centered design process to assess proposed solutions for gaps in social support services during pregnancy and the first year after childbirth.