Tower Health is launching its Post-Birth Alert Bracelet program at Reading Hospital and Phoenixville Hospital, a new safety measure designed to enhance care and support for new mothers beyond their hospital stay. Both hospitals are among the first in Pennsylvania to roll out the program.<\/p>\n
Funded by the Reading Hospital Foundation, the program launched on May 11 and will provide mothers with a bright orange bracelet to wear for six weeks following delivery. The bracelets, which are water resistant and read \u201cPost-Birth Alert,\u201d signals to healthcare providers and first responders that the patient has recently given birth and may require Ob\/Gyn-specific evaluation.<\/p>\n
\u201cSix weeks after delivery is a medically sensitive window,\u201d said Heather Enright, MSN, RNC-MNN, ICCE, maternal child health safety and quality nurse coordinator at Reading Hospital. \u201cBy clearly identifying mothers as recently postpartum, we can help emergency departments, urgent care centers, and other providers quickly factor in childbirth-related risks into their assessments.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the six weeks after delivery, the body is still healing. Health concerns can happen days or weeks after having a baby, even if the pregnancy and delivery were healthy. Rapid context is essential for appropriate maternity care since warning signs for conditions like postpartum hemorrhage, hypertension, blood clots, cardiac complications and infection can be small at first but can become serious if not evaluated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bracelet ensures that wherever a patient presents for care, that recent history is immediately visible and informs clinical decision making,\u201d Enright said.<\/p>\n
The program also includes patient education prior to discharge, with guidance on early warning signs and when to seek care.<\/p>\n
For more information, visit www.towerhealth.org\/orangebracelet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tower Health is launching its Post-Birth Alert Bracelet program at Reading Hospital and Phoenixville Hospital, a new safety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-190521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}