Webinar Wednesday: Meet the New PDR!


Wednesday, October 8, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
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Discover What's New with the Perinatal Data Registry™  

The new PDR platform launches September 30th! Join us for a live, interactive tour of the new platform's key features, design, and benefits. Use the PDR for your practice's statistics, collect and analyze client feedback, benchmarking, and contribute to research. This powerful new platform will better equip us to use data to advance efforts in evaluating, sustaining, and growing the birth center model of care for families across the country.  

 We'll explore the new features:  

  • Single Sign-On (SSO) in your AABC account member compass
  • Automated workflow of EHR data into the PDR for participating EHRs
  • Improved user experience including expandable data definitions, auto-calculated fields, easy access to incomplete records, and ability to correct data errors up to record submission
  • Filterable incomplete records list and overdue records list
  • Ongoing client experience data collection, also available in Spanish, which can be linked to PDR data to ask important questions like, "What experiences did clients have who transferred in labor?"
  • Robust practice-level and national-level dashboards of reporting and analytics tools
  • Real-time benchmarking
  • Provides data for CABC accreditation and the ACNM Benchmarking Project
  • Data export for review and analysis

Sign up for the PDR on AABC’s website. The PDR is a member benefit for Birth Center, Alongside Midwifery Unit, and Institutional members. The PDR is also offered as an annual subscription of $699 regular price and $499 member price.

Already Signed Up?

You’re all set! When the new PDR platform launches September 30th, you can access your new PDR account directly in your AABC member compass. No additional login required.


Presenters

Jennifer Stapleton
Jennifer Stapleton

Jennifer Stapleton is the AABC Perinatal Data Registry™ Manager. She demonstrates a long-standing commitment to harnessing the power of data to identify and support best practices that improve perinatal outcomes and childbirth experiences. Jennifer has played a key role in AABC data collection since 2010. She was Research Associate for the AABC Strong Start for Mothers & Newborns Initiative. Jennifer earned her master’s degree in sustainable international development from The Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University. Her concentration in the human rights-based approach to development enables her to bring this approach to her work at AABC. 


Jennifer Stapleton
Susan Stapleton has twenty-five years of full scope midwifery practice in birth center, hospital, and home settings. She is the founder and former director of Reading Birth & Women’s Center, a freestanding birth center in Pennsylvania. Susan established a hospital-based midwifery practice in Level II hospital and served as director of faculty midwifery practice in critical access hospital.  
Additionally, Susan is the former Chair of the American Association of Birth Centers’ Research Committee and Data Coordinator for the AABC Strong Start for Mothers & Newborns Initiative. Co-investigator for one, and primary investigator for a second, national prospective, multi-center studies of outcomes in freestanding birth centers in the United States. She served The Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers as Chair, site visitor, and review panelist. Susan previously served as President of the American Association of Birth Centers and on the BOD of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

For More Information:

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