Webinar: Delivering Safe Maternal Care: Operationalizing CMS Obstetrical Standards
Webinar
Thursday, September 18, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
iCalendar
Eastern Standard Time
Delivering Safe Maternal Care: Operationalizing CMS Obstetrical Standards
A Webinar Presented by the NCHF Maternal Health Action Network
The newly released Obstetrical Conditions of Participation (CoPs) from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mark a critical step toward improving maternal safety, clinical responsiveness, and accountability across perinatal care settings. While meeting regulatory requirements is essential, this webinar will focus on implementing strategies that move beyond simply checking a box—toward deep engagement with evidence-based strategies that have the power to truly improve perinatal quality and safety and mitigate risk.
Participants will be introduced to Delivering Safe Maternal Care: Operationalizing CMS Obstetrical Standards, a practical assessment tool designed to help organizations evaluate their current practices and align with the CMS CoPs. The session will support hospitals and health systems in identifying opportunities to improve and implementing best practices that promote readiness, effective clinical response, and robust reporting—ultimately driving sustainable improvements in perinatal quality and safety.
FACULTY
Dr. Adriane Burgess, PhD, RNC-OB, C-EFM, C-ONOS, FAWHONN has been a registered nurse for over 25 years working in a variety of maternal child health clinical settings, as well as an Assistant Professor of Nursing where she coordinated Maternal Child Nursing clinical and didactic courses. Adriane previously served as the Director of Quality Improvement for the Primary Care, Oncology, and Women’s and Children’s service lines for a large health system in South Central Pennsylvania, where she developed and led numerous successful system-wide perinatal quality and safety initiatives.
Currently, Dr. Burgess supports the statewide implementation of several perinatal-focused initiatives as the Senior Director of Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality at the Maryland Patient Safety Center. She also serves as the Director of OB/GYN Residency Research at WellSpan York Hospital and is active in the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) at the state and national levels. In addition to her work with AWHONN, Adriane also serves on the Medical Advisory Board of Count the Kicks.
Dr. Burgess holds certifications in Inpatient Obstetrics, Obstetric, Neonatal Quality and Safety, Childbirth Education, Healthcare Quality, and as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on maternal child health clinical quality and received several national awards for her innovative approaches to perinatal quality and safety, including the AWHONN Award for Excellence in Leadership. She previously co-founded Perinatal Quality Consultants and has since started Adriane L. Burgess & Associates. Adriane offers consultation to hospitals, healthcare systems and other organizations to promote the safe care of birthing people and their babies.