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Birth & Family Health Center
La Clinica de Maternidad y Familia

Centering:

Link to Centering Map

Link to Centering Invitation

“Centering is a model for delivery of health care that is on the forefront of health care system reform.
The three components of care:

• assessment
• education
• support    

                                  
These are provided within a group facilitated by a credentialed health provider and a co-facilitator.

The Centering model outcomes include:  empowerment and community building, increased satisfaction with care, reduction in preterm birth, and increased breastfeeding.

CenteringPregnancy® was piloted by a nurse-midwife in 1993-95 in a hospital clinic, a community health center, and a private office.  Now there are sites in almost all of the 50 states and some foreign countries.
  

CenteringParenting® well-woman/well-baby care began piloting in 2005.   These groups provide care through the first postpartum year and beyond, to both moms and babies.

Lifecycle groups are developing for a variety of populations, including diabetes, menopause, and chronic care.

Centering is an evidence-based redesign of health care delivery that helps to promote:

     • safety,
     • efficiency,
     • effectiveness,
     • timeliness,
     • culturally appropriate/           
     • patient-centered care, and 
     • more equitable care.   

Centering groups promote:

1.  Self-care
2.  Prolonged provider/patient  contact time
3.  Empowerment of participants
4.  Support and friendship
5.  Learning
6.  Better birth outcomes
7.  Fun

Centering is an exciting way for
patients and their families to get care.  Patients spend more time with their health care provider and with others with similar health concerns, giving them an opportunity to learn together and from each other.

Check-ups, education/skills building and development of community all take place in a group setting.”

CENTERING HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE, INC.
http://www.centeringhealthcare.org

Centering Address
North Highlands Family Resource Center
6015 Watt Avenue, Suite 2
North Highlands, CA 95660
679-3925 Fax 679-3928

Map to Centering