How You Can Help
Be The Voice of Mothers
Contact your local representatives to ask for changes to be made in direct entry midwifery that help improve accessibility, interprofessional relationships, and to ensure the best practices are being used to protect mothers and their babies.
Goals:
Modernizing direct entry midwifery in Texas to help improve maternal and infant outcomes for the growing profession
Creating a symbiotic relationship between hospitals and birth centers
Pushing for CHW employees to be available at birth centers and maternity wards of hospitals
Advocating for better communication and collaboration within the maternal health field
Address issues within hospital and out of hospital settings to improve patient outcomes
Join us in this journey to help protect mothers and babies regardless of how they choose to birth.
Local Ways To Help
Report fraudulent, negligent, unlicensed, and/or unprofessional behavior to the TDLR. TDLR is the regulatory body for licensed and Certified Professional Midwives
Report unsafe, unclean, unlicensed, and/or unprofessional facilities to the HHSC. Texas Health and Human Services is the regulatory body for Health Facilities
Contact your local representative and tell your story
State Legislative Changes
Accreditation for Birthing Centers
Texas Midwifery Educational Accreditation Requirements which include the removal of the PEP licensure pathway and opportunity for state approved courses to become MEAC accredited.
Malpractice insurance
Standardized Informed Care Consent Documents to Ensure Patient Understanding of Care and risks
Outcome, Transfer, and Mortality Reporting Requirements Separate from Hospital Statistics
In hospital educational clinical hours
Extension on the amount of time to file a complaint from 2 years to 3 years
International Confederation of Midwives standards used to guide practices
Required ALSO and IA training for licensed midwives
Expansion of insurance access
CHW project to help navigate interprofessional relationships and advocate for patient care
Access to technology to assess VBAC candidacy, early pre-eclampsia detection, nitrous oxide, and other technologies that could be used within a licensed midwives scope of practice to ensure patient safety
Change of regulatory body that benefits the profession and safeguards patients
Research efforts made that look into workforce environment, interprofessional relationships and how they affect patient outcomes.
Share Your Story
Many women have gone unheard and have experienced trauma, injustice, and life-threatening events in their birthing story. This is a safe place for you to share your story and create more awareness about what is happening in the birthing world so we can begin to ask the right questions and find sustainable solutions for a better future in maternal and infant health. We are here for you mama!
Want to be a part of the team?
Click the link below
We are looking for members to join our group that will bring valuable expertise, cultural insight, and community values to the table.
© 2024 momsadvocatingformoms