St. Vincent’s Medical Center: Doula-Clinician Collaboration Educational Forum – 6/3

This free session will be held at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Room Hawley 2. Registration is open to St. Vincent’s Medical Center staff and any doula who supports patients in Fairfield County. Registration is required. 

This educational event is intended to strengthen collaboration between hospital clinicians and community doulas in labor and delivery settings. It will focus on clarifying roles and scope, addressing common misconceptions, and aligning collaborative practice with maternal quality, safety, and equity priorities. Participants will gain practical, bedside-ready strategies to
improve communication, workflow coordination, and maternal outcomes with a focus on maternal health equity.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the role of doulas in the hospital setting
• Differentiate the scopes of practice of doulas from those of clinical staff
• Explain at least three evidence-based benefits of doula support on maternal, neonatal, and patient experience outcomes, with attention to equity impacts
• Identify at least two common misconceptions or barriers to doula-clinician collaboration between hospital teams and doulas in real-time clinical scenarios
• Apply at least two practical communication or workflow strategies to improve collaboration between hospital teams and doulas

This event will be co-facilitated by a community doula and a hospital-based clinician:

• Daileann Hemmings, DNP, RN, CLC, CCM, Hartford HealthCare
• Amore Panton, Community Doula, DoulaTogether, Inc.

Continuing Education Credits will be available for nurses and physicians.

Funded by support received from Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Fund for Women & Girls Black Maternal Health Initiative.

Contact CHA education services at EducationServices@chime.org for more information.