OCAHS Birth Center Featured in Article on Rural Maternal Care

Orange City Area Health System was recently featured in an article from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement highlighting the strengths, challenges, and perspectives of rural maternal care providers.

Kayla Paulsen, RN, BSN, CLC, Birth Center Manager at OCAHS, shared how rural nurses develop broad clinical skills and use simulations to prepare for rare, high-risk obstetric situations. The article also recognized OCAHS as one of three rural Iowa hospitals making impressive strides through a maternal-care quality improvement collaborative.

“We're not as specialized, but I would argue that we sometimes have more skill sets than some higher acuity facilities, because we have to know a little bit of everything,” Paulsen shared in the IHI article.