The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) has launched a Birth Survey. It's a fairly new thing; your participation would help it grow. Their admirable goal is to "promote a wellness model of maternity care that will improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. This evidence-based mother-, baby-, and family-friendly model focuses on prevention and wellness as the alternatives to high-cost screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs." The main purposes of the Birth Survey are 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."
The project so far has concentrated on New York City, but next month will be collecting data nationwide in earnest. You are welcome to fill out a survey yourself. They are also asking for volunteers to help spread the word and make this information available.
There's a tab at the bottom of the main page called "View Intervention Rates." Isn't that great? Being able to see what a facility or practitioner does is so important in making informed decisions surrounding birth, and is part of what CIMS calls Bringing Transparency to Maternity Care.
Go explore and contribute. It seems like a much needed project.
~S~
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