The Birth Survey
You may or may not have heard of “The Birth Survey” before. For those who haven’t…I’ll explain. This is a website designed to allow women to give input on their maternity care providers–from the nurses in your care provider’s office to the food service workers at the hospital! The point of this survey is to allow women to be able to read REAL reviews about various care providers to help them make an informed choice as they make one of the most important medical decisions of their life–where and with what care provider to give birth.
I whole heartedly endorse this effort, so encourage all women who have given birth in the last 3 years to take the time to fill out the survey. By filling it out you are helping other women! It is worth your time! So without further ado, here is a message from THe Birth Survey folks.
Most of you are now familiar with The Birth Survey and know of it’s potential for bringing transparency to maternity care and choice to expectant couples.
Any woman who has given birth in the U.S., in the last three years, is encouraged to take The Birth Survey and share her experience. This means that at any given time, 12.9 million women in California alone need to be reached. This is a huge project with 4 primary objectives:
Objective 1
Annually obtain maternity care intervention rates on an institutional level for all fifty states.
Objective 2
Collect feedback about women’s birth experiences using an online, ongoing survey, The Birth Survey.
Objective 3
Present official hospital intervention rates, results of The Birth Survey, and information about the MFCI in an on-line format.
Objective 4
Increase public awareness of differences among maternity care providers and facilities and increase recognition of the MFCI as the gold standard for maternity care.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
You can put a visible link to The Birth Survey on your website, become familiar with the goal of giving women a mechanism that can be used to share information about maternity care practices in their community while at the same time providing practitioners and institutions feedback for quality of care improvement efforts.
Click here to download…
http://www.thebirthsurvey.com/PRMaterials.html
Thanks for your help in spreading the word and giving birthing women a choice.
Jeannie Batacan
State Coordinator, Transparency in Maternity Care Project - The Birth Survey
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