birthing center

A medical facility, sometimes associated with a hospital, that provides a homelike setting for childbirth and usually offers the services of nurse-midwives. Also called birth center.

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On site is also a Birthing Center business included in the sale.

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Our Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic at Sherman is very proactive about prenatal heart screens for our babies," said Fran Teti-Teal, director of the Family Birthing Center at Advocate Sherman Hospital,"

Newborns wear red hats for heart disease awareness

WHEN THE MOTHER'S LABOR SLOWED at a birthing center, she received several medications including castor oil, blue cohosh, and black cohosh to induce labor.

Child stillborn, mother injured after vacuum extraction

Also Tammy Montgomery from Widdrington Station with baby Kiara, with staff from the new birthing center at Cramlington

It's a boy... and a girl! PS95m hospital's birth centre brings its first babies into the world

whether the birthing center is accredited and staffed by certified nurse midwives; 2.

Are birthing centers a safe alternative for women?

This slim volume details the demise of a British National Health Service birthing center and discusses changes to management, personnel and community outreach that might prevent such failures in the future.

Tensions and barriers in improving maternity care; the story of birth centre

Its completion follows a series of delayed starts, and it ends a difficult 10 months for expectant mothers since PeaceHealth closed its birthing center in Eugene last year.

New birth center due to open next month

His charitable activities include annual medical missions to Haiti where he established feeding programs and a birthing center (that now averages 250 deliveries each month) and the development of a free clinic for children of River Rouge who are from families with income below the poverty level.

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It's the only stand-alone birthing center within the Department of Defense, Corps officials said.

Vicenza's new birthing center: taking good care of loved ones: construction of the birthing center was completed in May 2005 and the enincaso Pavilion opened the following month

She argues that the medical profession is slow in accepting the presence of midwives in hospitals even though a growing proportion of mothers are anxious to give birth in a birthing center with the help of a midwife.

"Cinq ans plus tard, ou est-ce qu'on nait? Constat sur l'accessibilite de la pratique sage-femme au Quebec en 2004"

SIMI VALLEY - The Whole Woman Natural Birthing Center has opened a licensed breast milk bank in Simi Valley to serve Ventura County and the San Fernando Valley.

BRIEFLY

recently presented a check for $50,000 to the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation as pan of its ongoing support of the Union State Bank Family Birthing Center at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.