Honor Given by CommonSpirit after Intensive Application Process
Steubenville, Ohio – April 4, 2025 – The CommonSpirit Women and Infants Clinical Institute Executive Council has named the Trinity Medical Center Family Birth Center a Gold Center of Excellence (COE) after an extensive application process.
“The evaluation process is based on a predetermined list of measures that each unit is required to track for the calendar year,” Kimberly Posten-Carlile BSN, RN, RNC-OB, Nurse Manager, Birth Center, said. “There are nine categories that we report on.”
These categories include: Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) Without Transfusion; Maternal Hypertension; Maternal Hemorrhage; Neonatal Early Onset Sepsis (NEOS); Risk Screening; Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) Screening; Unexpected Newborn Complications (UNC) PC-06.1 Severe; Low Risk C-Section (Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine [SMFM]); Newborn Thermoregulation; and Patient Experience Facility
“We have to submit our outcomes-based data for each of the measures,” Posten-Carlile said. “For a majority of the measures, you have to meet a 90-percent goal in order to achieve the measure.”
Achieving 90 percent is a lofty goal, she added, because the Family Birth Center only sees a small number of patients.
“For example, the treatment of pregnant women with hypertension is one of the measures,” Posten-Carlile explained. “We have 30 minutes from identifying the hypertension to completing the treatment. We didn’t meet this goal with only three patients, and all three of those were treated within 60 minutes.”
To be named a Gold COE, an organization must meet eight of the nine measures. Trinity Medical Center not only achieved all nine measures but was also named the Most Improved Birth Center in the CommonSpirit health care system.
“Trinity Medical Center has a wonderful team of highly motivated nurses and physicians who put their patients in the center of the care circle,” Posten-Carlile said. “‘Every Patient! Every Time!’ is our motto. Our team holds each other to a high standard of care. They’re extremely dedicated to the women and children of the Ohio Valley and provide excellent quality of care at every turn.”
