Prevention begins with adequate care, but when more than half of Alabama’s counties are considered maternity care deserts or ...

Birth reports a 77 percent rise in non-hospital births from 2004 to 2017. Pregnant women laboring in inflatable pools in their living rooms, ... "Even with coronavirus, groups like the AAP still ...

Mitchell knows Birth Sanctuary's impact goes beyond being Alabama's first freestanding birth center. The Alabama State Board of Midwifery lists 19 midwives, and Mitchell is one of them. "And then, ...

The Iowa Legislature has exempted birthing centers from requiring a certificate of need to open. A Des Moines midwife who had sued the state over the regulation has dropped her suit and plans to ...

Midwife Caitlin Hainley sued state over regulatory hurdles to opening new birthing center. Despite loss in court, a new state law clears her path. Zach Boyden-Holmes Watch Iowans gather at the ...

The Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center, the only free-standing birthing center in the state since 1997, recently changed hands as national trends show that these types of facilities are ...

When the new OMH Birthing Center opens in the summer of 2026, OMH staff will return to Gaylord, and Grayling’s birthing unit will close as part of the Regional Care Transformation Plan.

Kentucky doesn’t have any birth centers that aren’t attached to hospitals, at least not yet. Though birth centers are legal in the state, midwives and providers have struggled to open them because of ...

After years of advocacy, freestanding birth centers will soon be easier to open in Kentucky, as activists say many women go to neighboring Tennessee and Indiana for childbirth.

HHS plans to fold the CDC's chronic disease center into the new Administration for a Healthy America. Experts fear for coordination with local health departments, among other things.