Toolkit
The Connecticut Doula Integration Toolkit
What is it:
The Connecticut Doula Integration Toolkit
Who it’s for:
Ob-Gyn and midwifery practices, doulas, health systems, and other stakeholders interested in integrating doula services within their care team.
What’s included:
Free resources to support the design, planning, and successful integration of doula services into the Connecticut Department of Social Services Medicaid program maternity bundle.
What’s Inside
Clinical Providers
Explore and define how your practice will incorporate doula services, establish and/or enhance relationships with doulas, and operationalize the doula benefit.
Tools
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Identify how to credential doulas for particip documentation in the bundle payment. Understand how training programs in CT meet the core competencies as identified by the Doula Advisory Committee.
Download:
Credentialing + Certification Assistance: Doula training programs vs. DPH core competencies (word document).
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A sample job description for a doula working within a medical practice.
Download: CT HUSKY Doula Job Description (PDF)
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Understand the role of doulas and review best practices for integrating doulas into the care team.
Download: Hospital/Provider Doula Policy (PDF)
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Use this code and rate schedule to communicate your proposed contracted rates to doulas.
Download: Doula Fee Schedule (PDF)
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Match eligible HUSKY Health members with a doula based on their demographic profile and personal characteristics. Use this referral form to share patient information with the doula provider.
Download: Doula Referral Form (PDF)
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Review how funding will flow to providers through the bundled payment. This interactive tool can be updated to reflect changes in practice volume.
Download: Doula Benefit Financial Flow Scenarios (PDF)
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A survey designed for providers to send to their patients following their experience working with the provider or doula team. Providers have the option to choose specific questions for a standalone survey or for incorporating into existing postpartum evaluations.
Download: Member Satisfaction Survey (PDF)
Access FREE resources to support the design, planning, and successful integration of doula services into clinical care. Note that these resources are designed specifically for integration into the Connecticut Department of Social Services Medicaid program maternity bundle, but can be adapted based on your community and context.
Doulas
Learn how to meet the requirements of the Maternity Bundle program and adapted to suit your needs.
Tools
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Send this form to practices for payment purposes and to fulfill the reporting requirements of the bundle.
This form assumes the doula is not salaried, but could be adapted in cases of salaried doulas to reflect their utilization and volume without the charge fields.
Download: Doula Invoice Reporting Spreadsheet (PDF)
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This webpage hosts a list of CT based organizations that provide doula trainings that meet the DPH certification criteria.
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Use this template to establish a contractual relationship for the provision of services to providers.
Download: Doula Invoice Reporting Spreadsheet (PDF)
HUSKY Health Members
Doulas can support you during your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. Learn more about how you can access these services.
Tools
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Learn more about what a doula is and how you can access one.
Download: Member Prenatal Education about Doulas (PDF)
Contact us if you’d like more information or implementation support. We’d love to work with you.
Related Programs
Want to see this resource in action? Visit the program page below to see how the Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS) is integrating doula services into the state Maternity Bundle to improve birth outcomes and equity in Medicaid.
Doula Care Model Integration
Tools and resources to integrate doulas within health systems and clinical care teams (OB-Gyn, midwifery practices) in Connecticut. Tools are designed for clinical providers, doulas, and health administration.
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