Countless studies and extensive reporting over the last decade have laid bare a sad truth: The state of maternal health care in America is profoundly inadequate. That’s especially true here in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The U.S. has four midwives for every 1,000 live births vs. 30 to 70 midwives in other high-income countries.

The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute recently entered a partnership to help improve outcomes and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in New Jersey by advancing the practice of midwifery in ...

It’s 5 a.m. at Mother Health International (MHI), a birth center in Northern Uganda affiliated with Yale University , when the call comes in from a local midwife about 12 miles away. A woman in her ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Midwives may have more time with patients to better communicate and lower the risk for intervention in pregnancy ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released new guidance to help countries adopt and expand midwifery models of care - where midwives serve as the main care provider for women and babies ...

When Gov. Maura Healey signed a maternal health omnibus bill in August 2024, health professionals celebrated it as a major step forward toward improving care and decreasing disparities in care for ...

In the early to mid 1970’s, the midwife was a radical concept that challenged the orthodoxy of hospital-controlled birth. The State of California had stopped issuing Midwife licenses in 1949, and only ...

It would be understandable if certified nurse midwife Rachel Blessington wanted to keep her head down in the busy work of delivering babies and caring for women. With options for prenatal and ...

Just as I sat down to write this, a woman died during childbirth at a hospital in Los Angeles The city where I also live and gave birth nine months ago. Her name was April Valentine. She was a Black ...

Ascension Providence Hospital-Southfield (Mich.) is ending midwifery services at the end of February, ABC affiliate WXYZ reported Feb. 6. The move will likely affect ...