Centering Healthcare Institute

Centering Healthcare Institute A better way to get care.

Transforming how healthcare is practiced and experienced, while empowering healthcare providers and patients to improve health outcomes through the Centering model.

Happy Mother’s Day from Centering Healthcare Institute (CHI).Today, we celebrate the mothers, mother figures and caregiv...
05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day from Centering Healthcare Institute (CHI).

Today, we celebrate the mothers, mother figures and caregivers who have supported us, guided us and helped us feel ready for life’s biggest moments.

In their honor, you can make a meaningful gift that helps expand access to CenteringPregnancy®, an evidence-based group care model that prepares expectant parents for pregnancy, birth and beyond.

When you give, you’ll have the option to share their email address so we can send them a digital Mother’s Day card letting them know a gift was made in their honor.

This Mother’s Day, celebrate someone who has made an impact in your life by helping make an impact for expectant parents, babies and families.

Make a gift in their name today: https://centeringhealthcare.org/donate-mothersday-2026

25 years ago on this day Centering Healthcare Institute was founded and the seed was planted for a national healthcare m...
05/09/2026

25 years ago on this day Centering Healthcare Institute was founded and the seed was planted for a national healthcare movement!

It all started when nurse-midwife Sharon Schindler Rising saw an opportunity to make care feel less rushed, more connected and more meaningful for patients and providers.

In 1993, she began offering Centering groups: facilitated, group-based prenatal care built around health assessments, interactive learning and community building.

The impact was clear, and CHI was born to champion and advance this growing movement.

Today, 25 years later, Centering has grown to approximately 480 sites across more than 40 U.S. states and territories with three Centering models to meet provider and patient needs: CenteringPregnancy®, CenteringParenting® and CenteringHealthcare®.

As we celebrate this milestone, we honor Sharon’s vision and everyone who has helped bring Centering to life: CHI staff, sites, providers, facilitators, coordinators, partners, and patients and families across the country.

Here’s to 25 years of Centering, and to the next 25 years of connection, learning, empowerment and care.

Still need a meaningful Mother’s Day gift?Flowers are lovely.A gift that helps improve outcomes for parents and babies? ...
05/09/2026

Still need a meaningful Mother’s Day gift?

Flowers are lovely.

A gift that helps improve outcomes for parents and babies? Even better.

This Mother’s Day, make a donation to Centering Healthcare Institute in honor of someone you’re celebrating. When you give, you’ll have the option to share their email address so we can send them a digital Mother’s Day card letting them know a gift was made in their honor.

It’s a meaningful way to honor someone you’re celebrating and make a proven impact for expectant parents, babies and families. Your gift helps expand access to CenteringPregnancy®, an evidence-based group care model associated with a 33% or greater reduction in preterm birth risk and up to a 54% reduction in low birth weight and NICU admissions.

Make an impact in their name today: https://centeringhealthcare.org/donate-mothersday-2026

This Mother’s Day, give a gift with meaning.Now through Mother’s Day, you can make a donation to Centering Healthcare In...
05/07/2026

This Mother’s Day, give a gift with meaning.

Now through Mother’s Day, you can make a donation to Centering Healthcare Institute in honor of someone you’re celebrating.

When you give, you’ll have the option to share their email address so we can send them a digital Mother’s Day card letting them know a gift was made in their honor.

Your gift helps expand access to CenteringPregnancy®, an evidence-based group care model that prepares expectant parents for pregnancy, birth and beyond with comprehensive clinical care and facilitated sicussions that transform health outcomes.

Make a gift in their name: https://centeringhealthcare.org/donate-mothersday-2026

Happy !Today, we celebrate midwives and the essential role they play in supporting expectant parents, babies and famili...
05/05/2026

Happy !

Today, we celebrate midwives and the essential role they play in supporting expectant parents, babies and families through compassionate, relationship-centered care.

Midwives are educators, advocates, trusted partners and powerful champions for healthier birth experiences. Their work helps ensure more people feel heard, supported and empowered throughout pregnancy, birth and beyond.

At CHI, we are grateful for the midwives who bring Centering to life in communities across the country and help make care more connected, supportive and impactful.

To every midwife leading with skill, heart and purpose: thank you.

✨ Ready to lead your first Centering group? We’ve got you.Our upcoming options for the Centering Facilitation Workshop a...
04/30/2026

✨ Ready to lead your first Centering group? We’ve got you.

Our upcoming options for the Centering Facilitation Workshop are a high-touch, virtual, yet interactive experience designed to build your confidence and prepare you to lead meaningful group care through CenteringPregnancy®, CenteringParenting® or CenteringHealthcare®.

🔍 What you’ll gain:
✔️ A strong foundation in the Centering model
✔️ Practical facilitation skills like mindful listening, strategic questioning and the Acknowledge, Refer, Return (ARR) technique
✔️ Hands-on practice to plan and lead engaging group visits

📅 June Virtual Workshops (Zoom):
🗓️ June 2-10 | Tues & Wed | 10:00-1:30 ET
🗓️ June 3-11 | Wed & Thurs | 1:30–5:00 ET

🎓 Earn 12.75 CE/CME credits and take the first step toward becoming a Certified Centering Facilitator.

💡 Open to new facilitators at licensed Centering sites.

🔗 Learn more & register by following the link in the comments below!

04/30/2026

Feeling alone during pregnancy is more common than people think.

This recent segment from KUTV 2 News in Utah highlights how CenteringPregnancy® is changing that by bringing expectant parents together for care that goes beyond the typical visit.

Instead of a few minutes with a provider, expectant parents spend time in a group with others at a similar stage of pregnancy, building connection, learning together and staying more engaged in their care.

The impact is real:
✔️ Increased confidence
✔️ Stronger support systems
✔️ Better outcomes for both parent and baby

This is what happens when care is designed around connection, not just appointments.

Let’s make this the preferred standard of care, not the exception.

Strong facilitation is what makes Centering work.Last month, CHI partnered with Waco Family Medicine in Texas to host a ...
04/28/2026

Strong facilitation is what makes Centering work.

Last month, CHI partnered with Waco Family Medicine in Texas to host a Centering Facilitation Workshop, focused on strengthening the skills that drive high-quality group care.

Led by CHI Training Advisor Nephtalie Dujour, the session brought together nurse-midwives for hands-on learning and real conversation around:
✔️ Finding your facilitation style
✔️ Navigating group dynamics
✔️ Keeping sessions participant-led while still meeting clinical goals

The result was an energized group of facilitators ready to deepen the Centering experience for the families they serve.

And that shows up in every group they lead next.

What does it look like to make Centering the standard of care and not the exception?It looks like adapting the group car...
04/27/2026

What does it look like to make Centering the standard of care and not the exception?

It looks like adapting the group care model to meet every patient’s needs.

At Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, a new CenteringPregnancy® group for patients with diabetes has launched, ensuring more patients can access group care that is tailored to their experience.

Working alongside CHI, Hayley Hoffman, CNM, Director of Centering at Sinai, is leading this effort by:
✔️ Designing all 10 sessions specifically for patients managing diabetes during pregnancy
✔️ Embedding Centering as the default model of care, with patients opting out rather than opting in
✔️ Expanding access while maintaining high-quality, relationship-centered care

The first group is already underway, with four patients enrolled and more to come.

This is how sites are innovating within the model to expand access, improve outcomes and meet patients where they are.

Policy decisions happening right now in Michigan will directly shape access to maternal care.At a recent House Public He...
04/25/2026

Policy decisions happening right now in Michigan will directly shape access to maternal care.

At a recent House Public Health Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, CHI was invited to speak about the impact the state's investments in Centering have made for patient care.

Representing CHI, Michigan Associate Centering Advisor Isadora Martinez highlighted:

✔️ The rapid growth of Centering sites in Michigan
✔️ The increasing number of patients being served
✔️ The measurable impact of MDHHS funding on outcomes and access

CHI also used this moment to advocate for policy that would require commercial insurers to provide enhanced reimbursement for group prenatal care, helping ensure this model is sustainable and accessible statewide.

This is what it looks like to connect evidence, funding and policy to real patient impact.

More access starts one site at a time.📍 Nogales, AZAt Mariposa Community Health Center, CHI held a combined CenteringPre...
04/24/2026

More access starts one site at a time.

📍 Nogales, AZ

At Mariposa Community Health Center, CHI held a combined CenteringPregnancy® site launch and accreditation, bringing together 50 attendees across providers, partners and participants.

One participant said it best. After not experiencing Centering in her first pregnancy, she felt more prepared and supported for her second because of it. That’s the impact.

This is how access expands.
This is how care changes.

Let’s make this the preferred standard of care, not the exception.

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