Getting Started

• Perinatal Transfer Committee Initial Meeting – Sample Agenda (2020)
• Transfer Protocol – Template
• Early Discharge Newborn – Template
• Transfer Algorithm – Template (Utah Women and Newborns Quality Collaborative)
• 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)

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 – Out of Hospital Births | Maternal and Infant Health Program (utah.gov) 
    • Transfer Toolkit
    • Midwife Infographic
  • Uplift Lab – www.upliftlab.org
  • Pronto International – www.prontointernational.org
  • Ariadne Labs – www.ariadnelabs.org/delivery-decisions-initiative/teambirth
  • California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative – www.cmqcc.org
    • Toolkit to Support Vaginal Birth and Decrease Primary Ceseaeans PDF Version (2023) – specifically part v. the next step: integrating midwives, doulas, and community-based care
      
  • Oregon Community Birth Transfer Partnership – www.oregonperinatalcollaborative.org
    • Transfer Improvement Toolkit (2021)
  • Primary Maternity Care – www.primarymaternitycare.com/programs – Various programs that support increasing quality, safety, equity, and interdisciplinary collaboration around birth, specifically focusing on birth centers, doulas, interprofession EMS training, and patient education tools about care options.

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