the components of UVPGA™
CULTURE OF SAFETY
BIRTH EQUITY
Our Approach
Una Vita's approach to Creating a Safer Birthplace for Women is differentiated by deeper and more actionable insights into the complexities of building a sustainable culture of perinatal safety. Our mutual challenge is to transform perinatal patient safety at your facility.
Using a thoroughly virtual approach, we will conduct a detailed assessment of the delivery of perinatal care including:
Employing a virtual platform Una Vita’s Perinatal Gap Analysis ( PGA) deploys the industry’s leading experts in Maternal Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics, Nursing, & Organizational leadership to ensure your facility meets professional best practices and external standards.
The Perinatal Gap Analysis enables a robust drill down supporting a level of granular detail that identifying opportunities where your organization will integrate key processes and meet national metrics.
culture of safety
At the core of the Una Vita Perinatal Gap Analysis™ is our commitment to organizational transformation.
Una Vita works with leadership, physicians, and staff to create a sustainable Perinatal High Reliability Organization.
We are not looking to accomplish minor and sporadic improvements. Instead, we look to senior leadership to demonstrate commitment to profound improvement and transformed culture.
Una Vita believes in creating a Culture of Safety in a way that instills a Just Culture is the primary and overarching goal of our work together.
Safety culture is a performance-shaping factor that guides the many discretionary behaviors of healthcare professionals toward viewing maternal safety as one of their highest priorities.
Healthcare, in general, will make significant progress when it comes to see itself as a high hazard industry which is inherently risky. We must abandon the philosophy of requiring perfect, error-free performance from individuals and focus, instead, on designing systems for safety.
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“Creating A Safer Birthplace For Women”
birth equity
Una Vita is deeply aware of disparities in perinatal outcomes in the United states.
We work with hospitals and healthcare systems to identify birth equity gaps and to implement changes that help to keep all women safe in a just maternal healthcare culture.
Data shows that black women and American Indian/Alaskan Native are three to four times more like to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women as well as also experiencing far more serious maternal health complications. Significant disparities occur within other non-white ethnic populations as well.
The bottom line is that too many women are suffering preventable severe maternal morbidity and death. Una Vita provides the methodology and means to close gaps in care for all at-risk women. Working together we identify and implement standardized protocols in quality improvement as well as to identify and address implicit bias in healthcare to improve patient-provider communication and interaction.
Our goal is to work with your maternity care services to implement interventions that prevent all at-risk women from moving along the continuum of severity.
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birth equity
Una Vita is deeply aware of disparities in perinatal outcomes in the United states.
We work with hospitals and healthcare systems to identify birth equity gaps and to implement changes that help to keep all women safe in a just maternal healthcare culture.
Data shows that black women and American Indian/Alaskan Native are three to four times more like to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women as well as also experiencing far more serious maternal health complications. Significant disparities occur within other non-white ethnic populations as well.
The bottom line is that too many women are suffering preventable severe maternal morbidity and death. Una Vita provides the methodology and means to close gaps in care for all at-risk women. Working together we identify and implement standardized protocols in quality improvement as well as to identify and address implicit bias in healthcare to improve patient-provider communication and interaction.
Our goal is to work with your maternity care services to implement interventions that prevent all at-risk women from moving along the continuum of severity.
request a proposal
request a proposal
The World Health Organization estimates that
pregnancy complications costs the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $80
billion annually. The liability environment for maternity care is volatile, and
hospitals are paying record awards in lawsuits involving preventable maternal
mortality and severe maternal morbidity.
With the CDC suggesting that 60% of all maternal deaths in the U.S. are fully
preventable, we also know that we can identify factors associated with severe
maternal morbidity and plan for interventions to prevent women from moving
along the continuum of severity.
Hospitals and healthcare systems who invest in the creation and support of a
perinatal culture of safety with the Una Vita Perinatal Gap Analysis™ will be
rewarded with better birth outcomes, reduced length of stay, increased patient
satisfaction, reduced litigation, improved net promoter scores, and increased
market share.
With Una Vita’s national experts, decades of experience, and a completely virtual
interview, analysis, benchmarking, and recommendation process, your maternity
care will be radically improved with minimal disruption to your clinical operations.
The U.S. maternity care system is the only developed country with rising mortality and severe morbidity rates.
value
Because our Una Vita Perinatal Gap Analysis is entirely virtual and does not require travel and the negotiation of schedules, we can provide you with the best national experts for the improvement of maternity services at your facility. Una Vita matches your needs for optimized perinatal performance with experienced leaders, physicians, and national experts.
Our talented and experienced team will complete a virtual gap analysis that includes extensive interviews with your leadership, physicians, nursing departments, as well as, quality and risk management.
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national experts
Your information and data is evaluated against national standards, statistics, and standard measures for excellence in perinatal culture, and birth equity.
Una Vita's advisory service offers your organization a seasoned team of healthcare experts and physicians who provide you with collective decades of combined experience in developing nationally recognized women's and neonatal programs for hospitals & health systems
