Representatives of community members, public sector organizations, and community-based organizations shared their first-hand experiences with inequities in the current system, and their cooperative effort to design an approach of more equitable care.
Misha Severson is a Registered Nurse and Clinical Implementation Specialist with the Delivery Decisions Initiative, primarily supporting the implementation of TeamBirth across the United States. For 20 years Misha worked as an obstetrical nurse in various inpatient locations across the country and was an inpatient obstetric nurse manager for three years before joining DDI, actively… Continue reading Misha Severson
Spokane Journal covers the TeamBirth launch at the Providence hospitals in Washington.
Tyler Fox is a Project Assistant on the Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) team. In this role, he primarily supports the TeamBirth project and Dr. Amber Weiseth, the Director of DDI. Before Ariadne Labs, Tyler worked as the Program Coordinator at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI) at Harvard University. In this role, he… Continue reading Tyler Fox
Forbes interviews the filmmakers of Aftershock, a documentary covering the black maternal health crisis.
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