The New Jersey Symposium for Physiologic Birth: 2018 Avoiding Cesarean

The New Jersey Symposium for Physiologic Birth: Avoiding Cesarean is organized by Midwives of New Jersey and will be held on Nov 08, 2018 at Bridgewater Marriott, Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States of America.

The Midwives of New Jersey, LLC have a corporate goal of Improving Birth Outcomes in New Jersey. As part of that goal, they hosted the Symposium last year, The Evidence for CHOICE. The conference was very successful for bringing together birth workers from around the state to examine the evidence presented by Dr. Rebecca Dekker of Evidence Based Birth specifically the evidence that supports Midwifery Care, Homebirth and Waterbirth.

The Symposium theme for 2018 Avoiding Cesarean is a hot topic among healthcare providers and administrators and policy makers alike. Our goal is to present solutions to a complicated problem from several different unique perspectives and bring together birth workers from around the state who share The Midwives of New Jersey’s vision for healthy births for all New Jersey families.

The Symposium will also look at reducing avoidable surgical births from the culture on labor and delivery’s perspective and from the Patient perspective.

This year, our Keynote speaker is Dr. Neel Shah. Neel Shah, MD, MPP, FACOG is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Ariadne Labs. Dr. Shah is listed among the "40 smartest people in health care" by the Becker's Hospital Review, and has been profiled by the New York Times, CNN, and other outlets. His team is currently collaborating with hospitals across the United States, and using methods from design, systems engineering, and management to reduce the epidemic of avoidable c-section. Dr. Shah will be discussing his work and recommendations at the conference.

Promoting a Pro-Vaginal Birth Culture on Labor & Delivery - One Hospital's Success Story

Topics that will be discussed include:
• Understanding the data
• Shifting culture
• Creating provider support
• Nursing impact on cesarean section rates
• Creating a toolkit for your hospital
• Hardwiring best practices
• Managing patient expectations
• Sustaining success
• Partnering with patients/communities

Other Benefits Include:
• Mentor support for implementation of bundle elements
• Development and implementation of consistent and standardized approaches to care
• Reduction in the risk of complications for mothers, such as: hemorrhage, uterine rupture, placenta abnormalities, cardiac events, infection, venous thromboembolism (VTE) and blood transfusions
• Access to the CMQCC Maternal Data Center to track and benchmark your hospital’s data for NTSV cesareans
• Identification of trends based on real-time data reports
• Data-driven insights into areas for focused quality improvement
• Drill-down data analysis by provider and provider-group levels
• Better outcomes for moms and babies

Reducing Avoidable Cesareans - A Systems Approach

Objectives:
• Articulate a comprehensive set of goals in helping to support and care for birthing families
• Describe how system engineering principles can improve the reliability, precision, and accuracy of clinical decision making in childbirth
• Understand the role strategic advocacy to sustain these improvements at scale

The Patient Factor: Helping Women Help Themselves

Topics to be Discussed Include:
• Reducing risk factors prior to conception
• Encouraging a healthy pregnancy lifestyle
• How alternative medicines providers encourage healthy practices
• Facilitating optimal fetal positioning
• Encouraging childbirth classes that encourage physiologic birth
• Teaching signs of early labor to delay hospital admission
• Promoting doula care
• Re-educating women about their part in the outcome

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available. ?