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

CROMWELL — It's been a whirlwind of a week for newly-crowned U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun, to say the least.

Would a trophy or tax break be enough to convince Americans to have more children? Countries around the world with plummeting ...

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 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 ...

The Monadnock Birth Center, which opened in 2008, closed permanently in December. ... “It was pretty shocking,” said Bradley, who had to quickly adjust and opted for a home birth.

UofL Health expects the birthing center to welcome approximately 1,200 babies annually, providing life-changing health care to families in the region. The center is expected to open this fall.

The birth centers’ lawsuit was filed in August 2023 after ADPH “created significant uncertainty” around the legal status of birth centers that provide midwife-led care by asserting that all ...

Vermont is one of only eight states that doesn’t have free-standing birth centers. If this bill becomes law, the state will be able to provide licenses so providers can open clinics.

house file 887 would remove birth centers from the certificate of need process, allowing more to open without a $20,000 barrier. moms and midwives spoke at a subcommittee hearing tuesday, ...

The Board of Trustees at Copley Hospital has hired an outside consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the facility's birthing center. Since December 2024, the hospital has been considering ...