OB HUB: Remote Electronic Fetal Monitoring Surveillance.

Objective: The purpose of this project was to implement a remote fetal surveillance unit with increased vigilance and timelier responses to electronic fetal monitor tracings to improve neonatal outcomes and increase safety.

Methods: A pilot project, OB HUB, facilitated implementation of a centralized remote fetal surveillance unit including artificial intelligence software and nurse experts dedicated to fetal monitoring interpretation. A telemetry room was established.

Low-Intervention Birth Suites Within a Community Hospital: An Innovative Approach to Perinatal Services.

Perinatal care leaders at a community hospital located in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area searched for an innovative way to provide a low-intervention option that promoted physiologic birth for women seeking intrapartum care. This reasonably priced project focused on the transformation of traditional labor and delivery rooms into birth suites and included installation of birth slings, full-size beds with home-like mattresses, new sleep sofas for the partners, and the removal of computer screens and electronic fetal monitors. In addition, the team wrote a specific birth suite policy, provided nurse education focused on intermittent auscultation and labor support techniques, and developed a birth suite curriculum for patient education.