UChicago Medicine designated SOAP Center of Excellence for obstetric anesthesia
The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) has designated the University of Chicago Medicine as a SOAP Center of Excellence for its obstetric anesthesia program.
The SOAP Center of Excellence designation, which remains valid for four years, recognizes institutions and programs that demonstrate excellence in obstetric anesthesia care, sets a benchmark level of expected care to improve the standards nationally, and provides a broad surrogate quality metric of institutions providing obstetric anesthesia care.
The criteria for the COE designation 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. The criteria for the SOAP COE designation, which covers all aspects of obstetric anesthesia care, were generated by expert consensus and incorporate evidence-based recommendations.