BIRTH-Rx: Medication Safety Risk Assessment in Labor & Delivery
Overview
Medication use during labor and delivery involves complex, high-risk processes where failures can have serious consequences for both mothers and newborns. Proactively identifying vulnerabilities before an event occurs is a cornerstone of high reliability and patient safety.
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The Medication Safety Risk Assessment in Labor & Delivery Program helps organizations systematically evaluate their medication-use systems, prioritize opportunities for improvement, and develop practical action plans based on national best practices and benchmarking from participating organizations. In completing the assessment with MPSC implementation support, participants gain practical tools to strengthen medication safety in the perinatal setting.
Program Objectives
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Evaluate organizational medication-use systems using a structured perinatal medication safety risk assessment.
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Identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement based on assessment findings, organizational goals, and leading practices.
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Compare organizational performance with aggregate benchmarking data and lessons learned from participating healthcare organizations.
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Develop actionable implementation plans to address identified risks using systems thinking and quality improvement principles.
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Build organizational capacity to sustain medication safety improvements through ongoing monitoring, leadership engagement, and continuous improvement.
Program Features
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Flexible Delivery: Available as facilitated assessment workshop or implementation coaching program tailored to your organization's needs.
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Evidence-Based Assessment: Uses a structured risk assessment tool informed by national medication safety best practices for perinatal care.
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Benchmarking & Shared Learning: Compare your organization's results with aggregate findings and successful practices from participating organizations.
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Implementation Support: Receive guidance on prioritizing improvement opportunities, developing action plans, and sustaining meaningful change.
Target Audience
Medication Safety & Quality Leaders
Patient safety officers, quality improvement professionals, medication safety officers, and risk managers responsible for medication safety initiatives.
Perinatal Clinical Leaders
Nurse managers, nursing directors, obstetric and neonatal clinical leaders, pharmacy leaders, and physician champions.
Interdisciplinary Assessment Teams
Nursing, pharmacy, obstetrics, anesthesia, neonatal care, quality, informatics, and other stakeholders participating in the organizational assessment.
Improvement Leaders
Individuals responsible for coordinating implementation of identified medication safety improvements.
Facilitators
The program is delivered by faculty affiliated with the Mid-Atlantic Patient Safety Center with expertise in medication safety, perinatal care, patient safety, quality improvement, and systems-based risk assessment.
Scheduling and Hosting
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MPSC will coordinate facilitated workshops and coaching sessions to align with your organization's implementation schedule.
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Virtual sessions may be hosted on MPSC's Zoom platform or your organization's preferred platform.
Program Levels
Facilitated
Assessment
MPSC Members:
Free
Non-Members:
$1000
Access to risk assessment tool with facilitated completion guidance, results review, benchmarking discussion, and action planning
Best For:
Organizations seeking expert facilitation
Implementation
Coaching
MPSC Members:
$3500
Non-Members:
$7000
Facilitated Assessment plus implementation coaching, action plan review, and follow-up support over 3–6 months
Best For:
Organizations implementing assessment recommendations
