Centering Groups and COVID-19

For those facilities that are going to adopt or have adopted telemedicine to replace group visits, how are you achieving the belly, BP and weight check?
women can track their weights at home.  And I suppose fetal kick counts can sub for the fetal dop tones, but how can you check fundal heights and blood pressure?  Home BP cuffs can be expensive, especially with so many out of work.
Thank you,

Joanna Stark
Santa Clara, CA

In case you have not seen this, HHS issued new rules on telehealth last week:


www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/emergency-preparedness/notification-enforcement-discretion-telehealth/index.html

hi, 
Zoom and Adobe Connect (and Webex) can all work. Fairly simple to set up and send a link for others to join. If your patients have computers, internet/phone to connect, it can work for now. Could be fun to share what's cooking in the kitchen, or favorite recipes, or Sibling Singing, or whatever you can imagine as families come in from home. I'd keep the sessions much short, like 15 min segments for an hour and of course do an Opening and Closing. Hope to see/hear about some neat reports here! Kathy Trotter

Our system is still seeing Centering patients in group but with less frequent visits for routine uncomplicated patients utilizing the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine pre-release routine uncomplicated schedule, regular session frequency for high risk patients and additional 1:1 visits as needed. We are however shortening sessions to focus on primarily provider assessments with opportunities to socialize and discuss topics during those assessments. After the assessments are complete we end the group and would like to give a handout focusing on topics we would cover with references to the Centering handbook. At this time our system despite HHS policy changes does not allow for group televisits like Zoom, etc.

Do any of you have a handout you already use for each session like this? Alternatively has anyone ever recorded a group using "actors" for the different sessions like a YouTube video of each session that we could also direct our patients to? 

So glad we have this format to talk to each other,
Carena (in Waco, TX)

Continuing the Conversation: Centering Community Comes Together vs COVID-19

We invite Centering partners from across the country to join us as we continue to discuss best practices, challenges, and creative approaches to keeping Centering families safe, feeling calm & connected during the COVID-19 crisis.

Hear guests Wenonah Michallet from El Rio Health, Tucson AZ, and Jessica Johnson from Alamance County Health Department, Burlington NC, share their successes, challenges and logistics with virtual CenteringPregnancy groups.

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