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Post by Marena Burnett on Mar 3, 2017 11:10:23 GMT -5
Thank you, Amy. You have shared so many inspiring thoughts in this post. I especially liked your comment, "Communication, consistency and calm is what patients need".
It helps to liken that first group experience to when you graciously welcome someone to your home. What makes Centering feel comfortable, welcoming and inclusive to someone walking in that first day?
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amydonaldson63
WA - Washington Centering Consortium
#BOOM SITE VISIT APPROVED - Thank you Centering Healthcare
Posts: 83
I work at a: Healthcare Facility
My job role is: Healthcare Provider
I am interested in Centering because: I want to make a difference in someones life for the better and help educate them about the better way of healthcare. I am passionate about what I do with our Centering Program at Kaiser Permanente. I love the lifelong friendships that I build while going thru the journey of pregnancy for all of my patients. I love the personal care that patients receive and I love to keep our groups fun and current. Coming up on being accredited for a year in Jan 2018 and we have grown so much. Already starting 2 groups a month starting Dec 2017, beat our goal to start 2 by a month. #MicDrop
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Post by amydonaldson63 on Mar 4, 2017 20:47:53 GMT -5
Oh Marena you are so sweet, I appreciate you saying that. I can only post things that I personally have experienced and hopefully others can take tips from that, as I do to others posts ect. At our clinic because I am the most experienced at Centering, I took on the role as Centering Lead Coordinator without thinking twice, we have brought it a long way including getting accredited by CHI in January, I am also working on getting the other co-facilitators more excited about Centering, so I have decided to put together a Calming basket for someone to win, I have gotten a gift certificate for a 1 hour massage, some facial masks, different kinds, some candles, bath bombs, some tea's and a few other things, I put these things all in a cute basket and I will display it for the month of March, every time someone recruits a patient to Centering where we know they do want to do Centering instead of just thinking about it, the person who recruits gives me a patient label which only has patients name and medical record number so I know who the patient is, they put their name on that label because they recruited the patient and I am going to put these labels in a jar all month. The last working day of March I will draw someones name out of there. I have included and invited the front office staff as well as the nurses who have patient contact who could possibly discuss Centering with the patient, then of course the medical assistants and even the providers. I of course am not eligible and neither will our lead midwife, but we have new staff, new midwives and we are accredited ( lol, I know I said that but I am pretty dang proud to say that) so I want to get the buzz going. All over the clinic. One of our newer midwives came to me yesterday in clinic and handed me a sticker and told me which group this patient was going to sign up for and she goes " My name goes into the drawing right" I said of course, since its only the 3rd of March I told her she was the first. Today she txt me and told me how excited she was about this gift basket raffle and thought it was a great idea. Nothing wrong with some good old fashion competition. I will do this for a few months, each month being a different theme. But centered around self care, ect because it is so important. Pretty fun stuff!!!
We shall see how many patients we recruit now. lol When I first started at my job now our groups were anywhere from 3-7 patients and now we have groups starting out at 10-11 and growing from there since they can join up until session 3. I will report back to let you know how this goes, gotta keep Centering fresh and fun and current and keep everyone involved from the front office to scheduling to back office to providers! TEAM WORK!!!!
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Post by nlewis on Mar 6, 2017 9:45:15 GMT -5
This is awesome, amydonaldson63! I absolutely LOVE this idea! Thank you for sharing your insight and experiences with our CenteringConnects community. Please let us know how your first raffle goes...and if you and your staff are willing, posting a picture.
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amelchior
IN - Indiana Centering Consortium
Posts: 23
I work at a: Healthcare Facility
My job role is: Administrator
I am interested in Centering because: it has the potential to improve the lives of people in our community and is a fulfilling experience for healthcare providers!
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Post by amelchior on Nov 7, 2017 12:36:19 GMT -5
We tell them first session that session 3 with stress management will be spa day... Hi Paula, I mentioned your post about doing a spa day at our facilitator meeting and a few people are really excited about doing this with their groups, it sounds fun! What types of activities do you do at your spa days? We talked about having fancy fruit infused water, having relaxing music playing with dim lights, and a massage circle. We had talked about aromatherapy and having an oil diffuser with lavender oil, but were worried about sensitivities to smell. I appreciate any ideas you can share.
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amelchior
IN - Indiana Centering Consortium
Posts: 23
I work at a: Healthcare Facility
My job role is: Administrator
I am interested in Centering because: it has the potential to improve the lives of people in our community and is a fulfilling experience for healthcare providers!
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Post by amelchior on Dec 12, 2017 16:02:40 GMT -5
We don't have problems with a no show rate. We make sure they know that they know it is their prenatal appointment and if they cant make it that they need to replace it with a regular individual appointment. We make sure everyone has fun so they want to come back. We tell them first session that session 3 with stress management will be spa day...For labor they know we have the empathy belly. Groups love to share and have fun and don't like it if its didactic or too many movies or speakers. We are always building the next session up and how much fun they will have. Our groups enjoy competitions ie splitting off into 2 groups and seeing which group can come up with the most discomforts of pregnancy and joys of pregnancy. We have some incentives but have found over time we really don't need to use them. Inspired by your comment, we hosted our first ever Centering spa day. The ladies loved it! Thanks for the great idea.
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Post by sherryann on May 23, 2023 13:30:23 GMT -5
New to Centering. I appreciate all the tips!
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