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Abstract
Purpose: Our facility aimed to establish a standardized process to guide healthcare team members to incorporate doulas in the labor and delivery setting while meeting regulatory and safety requirements and promoting operational transparency.
Description: Doulas provide emotional, physical, and educational support to patients and families throughout the pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. Doula care has been identified with improved maternal and neonatal birth outcomes, as well as improved perceptions of the birthing process.
Assessment: Our facility lacked a standard operating procedure for successfully incorporating doulas into the healthcare team.
Conclusion: We developed strategies to promote doula inclusivity in our labor and delivery environment with safety and quality at the core of our focus.
期刊介绍：
Maternal and Child Health Journal is the first exclusive forum to advance the scientific and professional knowledge base of the maternal and child health (MCH) field. This bimonthly provides peer-reviewed papers addressing the following areas of MCH practice, policy, and research: MCH epidemiology, demography, and health status assessment
Innovative MCH service initiatives
Implementation of MCH programs
MCH policy analysis and advocacy
MCH professional development.
Exploring the full spectrum of the MCH field, Maternal and Child Health Journal is an important tool for practitioners as well as academics in public health, obstetrics, gynecology, prenatal medicine, pediatrics, and neonatology.
Sponsors include the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health (ATMCH), and CityMatCH.
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