Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sarah Simmons, a midwife and co-owner of Maple Street Birth Center in rural Omak, Wash., is pictured holding a newborn. Sarah ...
The Midwife’s Place in Bellevue, Neb., the state’s first and only free-standing birth center, will close July 28. In a letter sent to patients, the center said, “The reasons for the closure are many, ...
But about six months after the center’s first delivery — a girl who was Alabama’s first baby born in a freestanding birth center — the state health department ordered Skanes to shut it down. A ...
Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, wanted to improve access to maternal health care in a state that's long ...