The CenteringPregnancy Model: The Power of Group Health Care

by Sharon Schindler Rising CNM, MSN, FACNM (Editor), Charlotte Houde Quimby CNM, MSN, FACNM (Editor)

Overview

Describes a highly effective alternative health care paradigm

Two distinguished leaders in (nurse-)midwifery provide a comprehensive examination of an effective, well-known model of perinatal care associated with improved health outcomes and reduced costs. This book describes basic tenets of the Centering Healthcare Model, which brings cohorts of people with similar health care needs together in a circle group setting for care. It encourages meaningful dialog between the patient, other patients, clinicians, the family, and the community. The chapters discuss the clinical practice landscape leading to the model’s development, its use in clinical practice, and its widespread and continuing growth as an effective alternative to traditional care.

Interspersed with comments and stories of support from Centering alumni, both group members and health care professionals, this book provides information on how to implement the group model in practice and maintain the three foundations of the model: health care, interactive learning, and community building. Chapters describe the power of the group process, through facilitative leadership, to encourage behavior change and personal empowerment. Data documents increased satisfaction with care and better health outcomes.

Key Features:

• Describes the theoretical underpinnings and foundations of the Centering Model
• Demonstrates ways that the Centering Model achieves improved health care outcomes and reduced costs Discusses the impact of evidence-based research on providers, administrators, and policy-makers
• Focuses on implementation science relating to stages of system redesign and supportive mentoring
• Includes personal stories from patients, providers, and staff
• Demonstrates the validity and applicability of the model to a variety of healthcare fields and practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826132437
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/13/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Sharon Schindler Rising, MSN, CNM, FACNM, is a certified nurse-midwife who established the graduate nurse-midwifery program and the Childbearing Childrearing Center at the University of Minnesota. She is the founder and president emeritus of the Centering Healthcare Institute, Inc. (CHI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health by transforming care through Centering groups.

Charlotte Houde Quimby, MSN, CNM, FACNM, served as chair of the department of Maternal Newborn Nursing and chief nurse-midwife at Yale New Haven Hospital. She developed the nurse-midwifery service at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and was a faculty member at Dartmouth Medical School, where she continues as an adjunct faculty of Community and Family Medicine.

Table of Contents

Contents

Contributors

Foreword by Michael C. Lu, MD, MS, MPH

Preface

Acknowledgments

Charlotte's Story

Starting Point Comments From Vera Keane, CNM, MA, FACNM

Comments From Carmen Strickland, MD

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SECTION I: The CenteringPregnancy® Model

1. The Origins of CenteringPregnancy^®

2. Making the Case for Centering Group Health Care

3. CenteringPregnancy^® Group Care

4. Why Circles Work

5. CenteringParenting^®: From Pregnancy Through Postpartum and Beyond

6. Facilitation: The Art and the Power

SECTION II: Centering Healthcare™: Transformative Change

7. Implementing Centering Group Care

8. Transformative Change

9. Spread of the Model to Other Health Populations

SECTION III: The Centering Healthcare™ Model: Making Change Sustainable

10. Making Change Sustainable: The Role of Policy and Advocacy

Lisa Summers

11. Growing Edge: Exploration of Innovation

A. CenteringPregnancy With Mindfulness Skills: Enhancing the Thread of Presence

Nancy Bardacke and Larissa G. Duncan

B. Centering Health and Oral Health: Moving Toward Healthy Women and Healthy Families

Sally H. Adams and Lisa Chung

C. Does CenteringPregnancy Promote Maternal Health Literacy?

Sandra A. Smith

12. Adapting CenteringPregnancy^®-Based Group Antenatal Care Globally

Kathleen F. Norr and Crystal L. Patil

13. Moving Forward Into the Mainstream

Bibliography

Appendix A Pilot Study of CenteringParenting^® in Two Public Health Clinics: Calgary, Alberta

Appendix B Field Notes From The Netherlands, Nepal, and Malawi/Tanzania

Field Notes: Introduction of Centering Healthcare in the Netherlands

Marlies Rijnders

Field Notes: CenteringPregnancy-Based Group Antenatal Care in Achham District, Nepal

Sheela Maru

Field Notes: Malawi and Tanzania

Crystal L. Patil and Kathleen F. Norr

Index