Below are handouts to support hospitals' work on the 6 highest-priority community recommendations for improving maternity care from the San Francisco strategy sessions. We provide these to help launch facilities' work on community-grounded quality improvement.
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- Resource sheet for "Respect our preferences, wishes, and boundaries, including around changes of providers/nurses and about our birth plan"
- Resource sheet for "Provide trainings that educate and un-bias staff and providers to care for our community"
- Resource sheet for "Constantly review patient feedback. Use a tablet with nurse/provider pictures and names to collect patient feedback during the discharge process"
- Resource sheet for "Provide the Black Birthing Bill of Rights to all patients and be well-versed in it"
- Resource sheet for "Create funds to support programs like EMBRACE, Black Centering, or M.A.N.A. that care for our communities"
- Resource sheet for "Have a community task force"