Centering Faculty and Consultants

Centering Healthcare Institute offers expert training and consultation for new Centering program start up and for existing sites that want to strengthen or grow their program.

CHI Faculty

All Centering workshops are conducted by CHI faculty who have been selected for their knowledge, skill, and dedication to the mission of Centering Healthcare Institute to change the paradigm of health services to a group care model in order to improve the overall health outcomes of mothers, babies, new families and all individuals across the life cycle.

Centering faculty members are health care professionals including nurse-midwives, physicians, and nurses with expertise in their clinical fields. These individuals have personal experience with Centering group facilitation.

Faculty members are trained through an individualized mentorship process to insure Centering training workshops provide high quality training in a consistent manner across the United States and throughout the world.

CHI Consultants

The Centering Model Implementation Plan (MIP) and Site Approval are services that assist clinical practice sites with the development and sustainability of a Centering program. CHI consultants bring information and guidance to help sites with these activities.

CHI consultants have expertise in system issues that affect the changes that are needed to provide health care in groups. In the MIP process a CHI consultant will be matched with a site to provide assistance throughout the first two years of the Centering program development to help insure successful implementation and sustainability.

Site Approval is a component of the MIP. Early implementers of Centering who did not follow the MIP pathway also will benefit from this service that includes an onsite visit by a CHI expert. The site visitor provides guidance to help sites demonstrate Centering model fidelity, program sustainability and an ongoing evaluation process for system and health outcomes.

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