• Introductory Materials
  • Smooth Transitions Information Sheet (2022)
  • Smooth Transitions Infographic – Licensed Midwifery in Washington State (2022)
  • Smooth Transitions Hospital PPT Presentation (September 2021)
  • Best Practice Guidelines: Transfer from Planned Home Birth to Hospital (Home Birth Summit)
  • Scope of Practice for Licensed Midwives in Washington State
  • MAWS Indications for Discussion, Consultation, and Transfer of Care in a Home or Birth Center Midwifery Practice (Revised 2021)
  • MAWS Shared Decision-Making Position Statement (Revised September 2022)
  • Recommendations for Replicating Smooth Transitions™ in Other States
• Start-up Packet
  • Perinatal Transfer Committee Initial Meeting – Sample Agenda (2020)
  • Transfer Protocol – Template
  • Transfer Algorithm – Template 
  • SBAR Nursing Script (Home Birth Summit)
  • Maternal Transfer Form (Home Birth Summit)
  • Newborn Transfer Form (Home Birth Summit)
  • Preparing Clients for Hospital Transfers: A Guide for Community Midwives (2022)
  • 911 Protocol for Licensed Midwives (2022)
• Data Packet
  • Smooth Transitions Survey Card (with all the QR codes)
    • Survey Link for Receiving Providers
    • Survey Link for EMS Providers
    • Survey Link for Nursing Staff
    • Survey Link for Community Midwives
    • Survey Link for Midwifery Clients
  • Smooth Transitions Audit Form – Facilities
  • Smooth Transitions Audit Form – Community Midwives

Useful Websites:

• Midwives Association of Washington State (MAWS) – www.washingtonmidwives.org
  • MAWS Indications for Discussion, Consultation, and Transfer of Care in a Home or Birth Center Midwifery Practice
  • MAWS Quality Management Program – Incident and Peer Review
• Home Birth Summit – www.homebirthsummit.org
  • Best Practice Guidelines: Transfer from Planned Home Birth to Hospital
  • Model Maternal Transfer Form
  • Model Infant Transfer Form
  • SBAR Nursing Script 
• The Birth Place Lab – www.birthplacelab.org – Numerous relevant studies about integration, collaboration, and the provision of respectful maternity care:
  • Mapping integration of midwives across the United States: Impact on access, equity, and outcomes (2018)
  • Giving Voice to Mothers: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States (2019)
• Northern New England Perinatal Quality Improvement Network – www.nnepqin.org/initiatives/ 
  • Multistate Collaboration to Confidentially Review Unanticipated Perinatal Outcomes – Describes NNEPQIN’s Confidential Review and Improvement Board (CRIB)
• Utah Women and Newborns Quality Collaborative – Out-of-Hospital Birth Project – health.utah.gov/uwnqc/ 
  • Transfer Toolkit
  • Midwife Infographic
• Uplift Lab – https://upliftlab.org
• Pronto International – https://prontointernational.org
• Ariadne Labs – https://www.ariadnelabs.org/delivery-decisions-initiative/teambirth/

Additional Resources:

• Smooth Transitions: Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration when Planned Community Births Transfer to Hospital Care (2022)
• Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Community Birth Settings (2022)
• Quality Improvement in Community Birth A Call to Action (2022)
• Are Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Collaborating Enough? How Including All Birth Settings Can Drive Needed Improvement in the United States Maternity Care System (2021)
• Birth Outcomes for Planned Home and Licensed Freestanding Birth Center Births in Washington State (2021)
• Webinar on the National Academies Report: Birth Settings in America – Lessons for Home Birth and Birth Centers (2020)
• Webinar: Best Practices for Community Birth Transfers – Transfer Tools for Midwives, EMS, and Hospital Providers (2020)
• Trends and State Variations in Out-of-Hospital Births in the United States, 2004-2017 (2019)
• Home and Birth Center Birth in the United States: Time for Greater Collaboration Across Models of Care (2019)
• WHO Recommendations: Intrapartum Care for a Positive Childbirth Experience (2018)
• Rural community birth: Maternal and neonatal outcomes for planned community births among rural women in the United States, 2004-2009 (2017)
• Informed consent and refusal in obstetrics A practical ethical guide (2017)
• Outcomes of Care for 16,924 Planned Home Births in the United States: The Midwives Alliance of North America Statistics Project, 2004 to 2009 (2014)
• The Lancet Series on Midwifery (2014)
• ACOG Committee Opinion on Planned Home Birth (2017; reaffirmed 2020)
• Washington State Hospital Association Safe Deliveries Roadmap