CenteringPregnancy Projects

1. CenteringPregnancy
Projects
Taylor Jackson

2. Travel
As the Centering Research Assistant, I
wanted to soak up all the information on
CenteringPregnancy that I could. This led
me to traveling to different hospitals and
facilities to hear their progress on
CenteringPregnacy programs in their
facility. CenteringPregnancy is a fairly new
form of prenatal care. A job description
that my preceptor has is to insure that all
the Centering facilities in South Carolina
are honoring the CenteringPregnancy
curriculum and qualifications. On these
trips and meetings, I would take notes and
help Sarah evaluate their status of their
program.

3. Hospitals visited….
AnMed Health Family Medicine
Anderson, SC
Palmetto Women’s Healthcare
Manning, SC
University Specialty Clinics
Columbia, SC

4. Revamping the Centering
Space
• CenteringPregnancy focuses it patient care to not only involve
the individual prenatal care but a level of care that provides
and educational and social component. I wanted to expand on
the social component of the healthcare that the center
provides the patients. By revamping the CenteringPregnancy
space, the patients will feel another level of relaxed. We are
trying to steer clear of the waiting room so I took it upon
myself to my the facility look less like a waiting room and
more like and entrance to a welcoming facility.

5. AddingpicturesofpreviousCenteringPregnancybabieswho's
mothershadcomethroughtheclinicandcompletedthe
CenteringPregnancyprogram.

6. Pregnancyisanexcitingtimeforthesewomenanditshouldbecelebrated.However,
manyofthewomengetanxioustohavethebabycomewhentheystarttoget
uncomfortable.Thisboardrepresentthecomingsoonbabies.Whenmothersare
gettingcloseandhaveonlyonemonthlefttheycanputtheirpicture,name,andbabies
nameontheboard.Thisisjustasmallencouragementtoseehowfartheyhavecome
andthattheduedateisalmosthere.

7. Thisservesasacutedecorationtomaketheplacefeelmore
invitingandcomfortableforthepatients.

8. Havingthewomenparticipatetogetherandcollect
thumbprintsbuildsthesenseofcommunityandallowsthe
womentobond.Laterthewomencomebackswiththeir
babiesandwilladdthesmallerfingerprints!