Obstetrics Anesthesiology receives SOAP Center of Excellence designation
The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) recently announced the Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology at McGovern Medical School is accredited and awarded the prestigious SOAP Center of Excellence (COE) designation.
The SOAP Center of Excellence designation 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 designation is a result of collaboration across departments at the Medical School, including the Department of Anesthesiology; the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; and The Women’s Center at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital.
Maya Suresh, MD, joined McGovern Medical School in 2019, and began a two-year process to have all the required elements to submit the application for SOAP Center of Excellence in September of 2021. Since its inception in 2018, only 72 institutions in the United States and eight internationally have received the designation of SOAP Center of Excellence.
“This designation means a lot because it heightens our profile within the department and within the institution,” said Suresh, professor in the Department of Anesthesiology. “We could not have done this without the help of Holger Eltzschig, MD, PhD; Charlie Artime, MD; Sean Blackwell, MD; Barbara Orlando, MD, PhD; and Paige del Castillo, MSN, RNC-OB, NE-BC. Partnering with them was extremely beneficial and added to the success of this application. There were many elements that we needed, and everyone was instrumental in helping put it together.”
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