Transfer Tools for Midwives, EMS, and Hospital Providers

Transfers from home births and birth centers to hospitals happen regularly and are an important part of safe care for birthing people and babies. We know that approximately 10-20% of planned community births (homebirth and birth center births) transfer to the hospital when pain medication or labor augmentation is needed, or when complications arise. 

Yet midwives, emergency services personnel, nurses, and receiving hospital providers don't receive training on how to work together as a care team. We often find ourselves trying to provide care in stressful emergency situations without the information or skills we need to do so effectively.

We're ready to change that and work together to improve care! This one-of-a-kind course:

• Is a curriculum designed by and for midwives, emergency services personnel, nurses, and receiving hospital providers
• Shares new collaborative methods for improving home birth and birth center to hospital transfers 
• Teaches communication skills critical to keep calm and clear during stressful situations
• Includes clinical best practices
• Models scenarios demonstrating these best practices for communication and care
• Teaches creative tools for bridging relationships with other provider types
• Includes everything you need to know about the other providers involved to support optimal care and smooth transfer across all settings of a community birth transfer

Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

1. Identify at least one system level safety issue in community birth transfers in their own community.

2. List four strategies for improving communication between provider types during a community birth transfer.

3. Describe two methods receiving hospital providers can use to improve clinical care and safety during community birth to hospital transfers.

4. Explain the benefits of collaborative transfer improvement work (such as joint case review) for patients, midwives, EMS, and receiving hospital providers.

This course will help all provider types work together smoothly so we can improve outcomes and the experience of care for new babies and their families.

HiveCE is an approved provider of continuing education by the California Board of Nursing, and this course is provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17686, for 4 contact hours, through November 30th, 2025. (This is widely accepted nationwide as continuing education for nurses and midwives. This course is accepted by NARM as Category 1 CE for CPM renewal.)

Accepted by NARM for the Midwifery Bridge Certificate, Category 3.

This course was previously approved by MEAC for 4 hours of continuing education through October 1st, 2023, under approval numbers M21-22-19-1001DE  and M1920-17-1001DE.

This course was previously approved by ACNM for 4 hours of continuing education, under approval numbers 2019/085 through October 16th, 2021, and 2021-116 through November 17th, 2023.

This course is free for all volunteer EMS personnel! For a free enrollment, please email [email protected] with: your name, your email, and the name of the organization you volunteer with (Example: Campbell County Volunteer Fire Department). 

Note: Course completion does not authorize the learner to use skills outside their scope. Please refer to your state guidelines for determining scope of care.

For information regarding our refund policy and other Frequently Asked Questions, please refer to our FAQ. If you have additional questions, please email [email protected].