Things I Wish I Had Known Medical City Dallas became one of the first Texas hospitals to complete its maternal verification survey for Level 4 OB designation. As the hospital’s perinatal program manager, Lauren Moore, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, was quickly tasked with getting the hospital ready for its first survey within a few months. So More >>
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Best Practice: UMC El Paso Maternal Survey Insights
Congratulations to University Medical Center of El Paso for becoming the first hospital in Texas to complete the new maternal verification survey, which was conducted earlier this fall with Texas Perinatal Services. We recently sat down with UMC El Paso Director of Women’s Services Gloria V. Delgado, MSN, RNC-OB, to get her insights into their More >>
A Conversation with Texas Perinatal Services Maternal Surveyor Dr. Elly Xenakis
At Texas Perinatal Services, we pride ourselves on hiring only Texas-based, Texas-experienced clinicians for our survey teams. Why is that important? Because, unlike clinicians whose frame of reference may come from other regions of the country, our surveyors understand the unique challenges of delivering healthcare in a state as large and diverse as Texas. Dr. More >>
Best Practices: How One Dallas Hospital is Helping Improve Response in High-Risk OB Transport
Medical City Dallas Hospital’s high-risk OB transport team knows that high-risk pregnancy situations can happen anywhere, anytime – at home, in a birthing center or on the way to the hospital. And those are situations that local firefighter-paramedics likely didn’t train for in school. With paramedic coursework offering only about one day of limited OB More >>
Best Practice: What El Paso Hospitals Learned from NICU Disaster Drills
When six El Paso hospitals launched NICU disaster drills this spring, they joined a small and elite group nationwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fewer than half of all hospitals with an emergency department have a disaster plan for children. So what did the BorderRAC exercise reveal? Among takeaways, the participating More >>
And We’re Off! First Maternal Care Survey Completed.
One Texas hospital wasted no time getting its maternal care verification survey process underway this summer. The Texas Perinatal Services team recently returned from El Paso, where surveyors spent two days onsite at the Level IV facility. In addition to Vice President of Operations Brenda Putz and Perinatal Program Manager Carla Rider, the survey team More >>
Guest Column: Preparing for Harvey in the Coastal Bend
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017, began like any typical day for the staff of Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi – meeting notices and cafeteria menu changes were sent out via email, patients were cared for, staff came and went as scheduled. People along the Texas coast had been watching a tropical depression that had recently More >>
