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Tuesday, November 29, 2011                                       RON HALLMAN, 802-388-4744

Tapestry Midwifery Receives National “Best Practice” Recognition from ACNM

Vergennes--Tapestry Midwifery in Vergennes has been recognized by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) for achieving “Best Practice” standards for small- sized midwifery practices in four clinical areas. These are: Lowest Rate of Low Birthweight Infants, Lowest Rate of Maternal Length of Stay After a C-section, Lowest Maternal Readmission Rate and Highest Breastfeeding Continuation Rate.

According to the ACNM, this recognition is in connection with their ongoing “Benchmarking Project”, which is a method for comparing care processes to those of other practices and identifying “best practices”.

“Benchmarking helps project participants to improve and adapt the care they provide to obtain superior outcomes in patient satisfaction, patient safety, effectiveness and efficiency” according to the ACNM web site.

“The purpose of the ACNM Benchmarking Project is to improve and maintain the quality of midwifery care provided to women and children by promoting member awareness of best practices” per their report. To facilitate this process, members share data on nationally recognized quality metrics.

According to the ACNM, a total of 50 data points were collected and analyzed during 2011, resulting in 33 benchmarks for comparison. A total of 98 midwifery practices participated, representing more than 53,000 births and the work of approximately 570 midwives.

“We are honored to receive this recognition by the ACNM and are very proud of the
services we provide to women and families”, said Heather Kidde, one of the three certified nurse-midwives working at Tapestry Midwifery.

Dr. Katherine Wagner, a physician at Addison Associates in OB/GYN agrees, “Women in our community are extremely fortunate to have a variety of exceptional resources and providers available to them for their maternity care, including our new Birthing Center, our colleagues at Tapestry Midwifery and my physician colleagues here at our practice.”

“We applaud this recognition for Tapestry Midwifery and congratulate the staff for achieving this status”, she said.