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Before The First Maternal Verification Survey

March 12, 2019

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

December 17, 2018

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 >>

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A Conversation with Texas Perinatal Services Maternal Surveyor Dr. Elly Xenakis

December 14, 2018

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 >>

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Best Practices: How One Dallas Hospital is Helping Improve Response in High-Risk OB Transport

December 10, 2018

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 >>

Tags: EMS, Hospitals, Maternal

Best Practice: What El Paso Hospitals Learned from NICU Disaster Drills

October 1, 2018

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 >>

Tags: Disaster Preparedness and Response, NICU

And We’re Off! First Maternal Care Survey Completed.

August 29, 2018

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 >>

Tags: Hospitals, Maternal

Guest Column: Preparing for Harvey in the Coastal Bend

October 2, 2017

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 >>

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Recent Posts

  • Before The First Maternal Verification Survey
  • Best Practice: UMC El Paso Maternal Survey Insights
  • A Conversation with Texas Perinatal Services Maternal Surveyor Dr. Elly Xenakis

  • “Your physician surveyor was a great mentor and shared a lot of knowledge with our team.”
    Christus Santa Rosa Hospital San Marcos
  • “Incredibly helpful with any questions or concerns we had prior to the survey and always responded in a timely manner to any requests/clarifications we asked for.”
    Methodist Children’s Hospital
  • “The neonatal physician surveyor made us feel very comfortable during the survey and was very patient."
    Knapp Medical Center
  • “Our nurse surveyor was very knowledgeable and comforting.”
    San Angelo Community Medical Center
  • “Great communication.”
    Valley Regional Medical Center
  • “Great feedback to aid us in a direction to take in improving our overall program. Great learning opportunity. Recognized our hard work.”
    Southwest General Hospital
  • “The nurse surveyor was energetic, shared her experiences and was friendly.”
    Ascension Seton
  • “The neonatal physician surveyor was very helpful and gave us ideas to build our
    quality improvement program.”
    Ascension Providence
  • “Your team did a great job with the survey and was very knowledgeable.”
    The Hospitals of Providence Children’s Hospital El Paso

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