**We use language that centers women

• We support all women with a unique focus on Black women to shift the dynamics of health disparities.
• We provide evidence-based information and honor cultural practices and wisdom in support of the diversity of options available to a woman.
• We support the involvement of fathers, partners, and family members as healthcare advocates for a woman's right to informed consent, informed refusal, and shared decision making.
• We support the continuity of care by health care providers with the inclusion of fathers, partners, and family members to the extent that a woman desires.
• We support care that incorporates spirituality, emotional and physical support, and complementary, alternative and integrative medicine and treatments that embrace a woman's desire for an unmedicated  birth or limited use of medication.
• We support and respect a woman's individual values, culture, beliefs, needs, and personal preferences.
  
• We support a woman's right to access information and knowledge that empowers her ability to make informed decisions about her care.
• We support evidence-informed practices that consider the best research, provider's knowledge and critical thinking, client preferences and values, and clinical circumstances.
  

Adapted from the proposed revised model of patient centered care as outlined in Patient-Centered Medicine, Patient-Centered Care in Maternity Services.

• We support evidence-informed practices that consider the best available research evidence, practitioner knowledge and experience, client preferences and values, and the clinical state and circumstances (Nevo & Slonim-Nevo, 2011).