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Transforming Maternity Care

2020 Vision for a High Quality, High Value Maternity Care System

Childbirth Connection TMC Topics Webinar Series

September 14, 2010

R. Rima Jolivet, CNM, MSN, MPHTransforming Maternity Care Project Director

Associate Director of ProgramsChildbirth Connection

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Childbirth Connection

MissionTo improve the quality

of maternity care through research, education, advocacy, and policy.

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Transforming Maternity Care: Looking Forward with Shared Perspective

The TMC Project:

• Multi-year collaboration with more than 100 maternity care leaders

• Broad participation and open, transparent group process to reach consensus through discourse

• Two direction-setting papers:

“2020 Vision” and “Blueprint for Action”• Dissemination and implementation through

Partnership and Community Action

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Transforming Maternity Care: Looking Forward with Shared Perspective

2020 Vision for a High Quality, High Value Maternity Care System

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Transforming Maternity Care: The Vision Team

• Martha Cook Carter, CNM, MBA

• Maureen P. Corry, MPH

• Suzanne F. Delbanco, PhD

• Tina Clark-Samazan Foster, MD, MPH, MS

• Robert Friedland, PhD

• Robyn Gabel, MSPH

• Teresa Gipson, RN, MD

• Rima Jolivet, CNM, MSN, MPH

• Elliott Main, MD

• Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH

• Penny Simkin, PT, CD

• Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN

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Transforming Maternity Care: Creating a Shared Perspective

What Is a Vision?

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Transforming Maternity Care: Looking Forward with Shared Perspective

• A Vision Is:

• A framework for possibility

• A long clear sightline radiating forward

• A statement of fundamental human desires

• An open invitation and an inspiration for people to create ideas and events that correlate with its definitional framework

(Zander & Zander, 2000)

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Transforming Maternity Care: Looking Forward with Shared Perspective

• A Vision Provides:

• A focal point for change

• A clear, shared definition of the goals

• Motivation to change, even when it is hard

• A rallying point that brings stakeholders together in service of a perceived greater good

(Kotter, 1996)