The Perinatal Care Course California Hospitals Rely On — Updated For Your Organization.

Updated Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth course gives your perinatal clinicians practical, evidence-based skills to deliver consistent, safe, high-quality care under real clinical conditions.

Sixty minutes per clinician. Accredited. Deployed through your LMS or ours, with completion reporting.

Clinicians Evaluated

Report Using the Skills in Patient Care

Learner Satisfaction

Identified by the California DOJ as the course used by the vast majority of California hospitals
PROVEN EFFECTIVE

In follow-up evaluations, over 90% of learners reported using the strategies they learned in their daily practice.

Over 93% reported that taking the course(s) resulted in better patient encounters, increased confidence, and better patient care. 

What clinicians learn

Upon completion, clinicians are able to:

  • Describe the causes of unintended variation in quality of care across perinatal patients
  • Explain how time pressure, cognitive load, fatigue, and stress increase reliance on rapid default assumptions, and how this contributes to unintended variation in perinatal communication and clinical decisions
  • Recognize how rapid first impressions can influence empathy, attention, and clinical decision-making in perinatal encounters
  • Apply at least three in-the-moment tools that protect decision accuracy and communication quality
  • Demonstrate communication behaviors that strengthen partnership and informed decision-making
  • Implement core practices for respectful care with every patient

The problem your quality data already shows

A large body of research documents unwanted variation in the quality and safety of perinatal care. It does not come from clinician intent. It comes from the conditions of real clinical work: cognitive load, time pressure, fatigue, stress, and incomplete information, which push even excellent clinicians toward rapid default assumptions that degrade communication and clinical decisions.
  • Inappropriate (unintended) variation in assessment and treatment
  • Communication breakdowns that contribute to risk
  • Inconsistent patient experiences
  • Safety events and near misses
  • Gaps between “how care is designed” and “how care actually unfolds”

How?

By addressing one of the largest sources of variation and risk: the rapid cognitive processes and moment-to-moment interactions that shape assessment, decision-making, and communication.

That makes it a patient safety problem with a skills solution. This course delivers the skills: concrete, in-the-moment tools clinicians rate as new, realistic, and immediately usable, not another awareness module.
When clinicians operate under time pressure, interruptions, and high cognitive load, even experienced professionals may produce varied outcomes — not because they lack skill or commitment, but because of how the human mind processes information in real contexts.

Deployment built for organizations

Delivery options

Self-guided delivery through the Humanitas Institute platform with rostered enrollment, or licensed delivery through your own LMS. Facilitated and group delivery models are available under an expanded license.

Reporting

Completion and credit reporting for compliance files, survey readiness, and quality documentation.

Scale

Volume licensing priced by clinician count; system-wide agreements available.

Timeline & companion courses

Typical deployment within two weeks of signature. A parallel nurse course (ANCC Accredited CE contact hours) and versions for allied health and non-clinical staff with patient contact let one initiative cover the full perinatal team.

Increased Quality of Care Enhanced Patient Safety
Improved Patient Outcomes
For Every Patient

Where it fits in your quality portfolio

Maternal safety initiatives and perinatal quality collaborative work

A documented, evaluated clinician education component for improvement initiatives.

Joint Commission National Performance Goals

A documentable workforce education element of your written plan to improve outcomes for all patients.

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Birthing-Friendly hospital designation

Supports the patient safety practices component of the Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure, publicly reported on Care Compare.

Risk reduction

Communication failure is a leading contributor to preventable perinatal harm and obstetric claims. This course targets communication quality under pressure directly.

Independently evaluated with strong results across thousands of healthcare learners

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devoted to giving organizations and providers
the tools they need to provide exceptional care for diverse patients

Our courses have been evaluated with over 18,000 providers & clinicians.

Trusted by Optum Health, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, The Permanente Medical Group, Sutter Health, HealthPartners, Confluence Health, the Hospital Association of New York, the Indiana Hospital Association, and the California Hospital Association, among others. In their words: “unmatched expertise,” “the best we have seen,” “truly evidence-based,” “top marks from our doctors.”

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