title: The ultimate birth center: a collaborative model for innovation.
abstract: Lest these descriptions sound too good to be true, Virginia Mason Birth Center is not utopia. It is a real place with real problems and struggles. Implementing and maintaining personalized, high-quality obstetric care to the childbearing woman and her family has not come easily. Innovations continue to be developed in response to patients' and providers' desire for birth services that are flexible, sensitive, and designed around families' preferences and needs. A common philosophy continues to guide a dedicated staff, administration, and provider group within a framework of collaboration, innovation, and quality to enable a wonderful professional practice to evolve.
authors.affiliation: Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Reinke
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zelenkov
mesh_terms: D016550:Birthing Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000458:organization & administration; D009773:Obstetric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D009775:Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011247:Pregnancy; D014861:Washington