Located within Children's Wisconsin Hospital, the Froedtert Birth Center provides care for a complex and diverse patient population
About our OB Division
- Our OB Anesthesiologists practice at the Froedtert Birth Center
- A Level IV Perinatal Center that rovides on-site medical and surgical care of the most complex maternal conditions and critically ill pregnant women and fetuses throughout antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care
- More than 3,400 births annually
- Adjacent to Children's Wisconsin's Level-IV NICU
- Designated as a Center of Excellence by the Society for Obstetric Anesthesiology and Perinatology
- Recognizes institutions and programs that demonstrate excellence in obstetric anesthesia care and to set a benchmark of expected care to improve standards nationally and internationally
- The criteria for the COE designation cover all aspects of obstetric anesthesia care, and include: personnel and staffing; equipment, protocols, and policies; simulation and team training; obstetric emergency management; cesarean delivery and labor analgesia care; recommendations and guidelines implementation; and quality assurance and patient follow-up systems
- One of just 14 facilities nationwide recognized with this distinction in 2019; designation is valid for four years
- Private, comfortable birthing suites equipped with advanced technology and equipment
- CAAs also staff the FBC
- Recently, an additional FBC rotation was added for our resident physicians - a new two-week rotation that allows CA-1s to get familiar with the workflow and clinical needs of OB anesthesia prior to doing their FBC junior rotation
- Several recent quality projects have increased both anesthesia provider and patient satisfaction, as well as improving quality performance:
- An OB quality dashboard that allows us to keep track of specific quality metrics (PDPH, Epidural replacement/failure, neuropraxia, and GETA for C-section) each quarter
- Establishing a relationship with the Department’s new Chronic Inpatient Pain program (CHIPS) to do fluoroscopy-guided EBP when necessary
- Working with RAAPS to do truncal blocks after C-sections for high-risk patients