Scaling Up and Sustaining Midwifery
Scaling Up and Sustaining Midwifery
About Us
Grow Midwives works on building relationships and educating physicians, hospitals, and midwives about best practices in collaborative care experiences. A variety of care models, in a variety of settings, can be implemented with our expert assistance.
Our Services
We scale up and sustain Midwifery in the US through our four product lines: one-on-one assistance with midwives, practice development, birth facility settings, and advocacy work. Have your voice heard and grow your practice with Grow Midwives.
Events
Grow Midwives focuses on coordinating stakeholders from every level of the medical community to create change through advocacy and awareness. Join us at our different speaking and educational events throughout the year.
About Us
Grow Midwives works on building relationships and educating physicians, hospitals, and midwives about best practices in collaborative care experiences. A variety of care models, in a variety of settings, can be implemented with our expert assistance.
Our Services
We scale up and sustain Midwifery in the US through our four product lines: one-on-one assistance with midwives, practice development, birth facility settings, and advocacy work. Have your voice heard and grow your practice with Grow Midwives.
Events
Grow Midwives focuses on coordinating stakeholders from every level of the medical community to create change through advocacy and awareness. Join us at our different speaking and educational events throughout the year.
Learn more about our Services
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Our Thoughts
Negotiating At Will Contracts
October 7, 2020 Negotiating At Will Contracts – Joseph Booth, Lesley Rathbun and Ginger Breedlove This panel presentation will help midwives improve their understanding on how to protect your professional career, view examples from redacted contracts with concerning...
Covenants Not to Compete: Contract Perils Webinar
This 90 minute recorded webinar with Joseph Booth and Ginger Breedlove zeros in on a specific area of Restrictive Covenants - the noncompete. #GrowMidwives review of now over 200 contracts has evaluated a wide range of restrictive covenants for midwife employment...
Landing the Interview & Job Offer Seminar
Listen to this 90-minute recorded live Webinar with Ginger Breedlove discussion 6 key strategies to landing an interview and getting a job offer. Topics include: Readiness to apply, Application Process, Follow-up, Readiness to Interview, Interview and Negotiations. A...
Meet Grow Midwives
Ginger Breedlove
PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN
Principal Consultant
Lesley Rathburn
MSN, CNM, FNP, FACNM
Senior Consultant
Joseph Booth
JD, Mdiv., FAAML
In-House Counsel
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When US Midwife services for a community are sacrificed to preserve a profit margin alongside physician power, families and communities suffer.
What will it take for mainstreaming midwifery?
What will it take for consumers to believe decades of evidence demonstrating optimal outcomes, reduced cost and high satisfaction when care is provided by midwives and challenge these decisions?
What will it take for collaborative, collegial, non-competitive models of care across the country?
What will it take for families to be provided choice in and seamless care as defined by services available when needed?
What will it take for midwives to gain a respected, integrated role as autonomous health care providers?
What will it take to remove politics, power and profit from US health care and prioritize people served?
For the country with the worst outcomes in maternal infant health of all high-income countries in the world, while also spending significantly more money on services, the answer to improving outcomes and reducing cost is NOT Cape Cod Hospital response.
To my midwife colleagues who have dedicated years to this community, where there is will there is way.
#2020yearofthemidwife
www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2020/10/28/cape-cod-healthcare-cut-back-midwife-services/6059882002/
Cape Cod Healthcare to cut back on midwife services
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Officials say plan will restructure care at Cape Cod's only maternity unit, but nurses union says it will reduce patient optionsJoseph has a robust background in law and healthcare. Learn how he has used his passion and experience to help push Grow Midwives forward!
Even from rural MO thru a cold/rainy week, a trip planned months ago blending work with fall fly fishing - I’m grateful for the Internet and opportunity to work with so many passionate midwives.
So far this week assisted with several contracts, coaching sessions, negotiating job offers, discussions on starting private midwifery practice and providing a CME session for Healthy Babies Healthy Mothers Georgia this afternoon.
The only way to advance midwifery is to use your strong patient advocacy voice in key conversations requiring a strong professional (self-advocacy) voice.
#GrowMidwives
#Yesyoucan
#2020yearofthemidwife
Continuing to connect several dots on VC Oula move to support a new model of maternity care based in NYC. oulahealth.com/
“Midwife or doctor? Birth center or hospital? Medicated or au naturale? At Oula, we believe it doesn’t have to be one or the other. So we’ve redesigned an experience that doesn’t have a “right way.” Our collaborative team of experienced midwives and obstetricians work together to navigate, educate, and help you make the choices that are best for you. So you feel empowered and safe from start to finish.”
Chelsea Clinton also joining in investment startup stating, “Women should be at the center of their health care, especially during pregnancy,” Clinton said in a statement to Fortune about her investment in the startup. That experience should be collaborative and holistic, and Metrodora is proud to support Oula Health to create an approach that does just that for prenatal and postpartum care.”
#staytuned
#birthcenterinNYC
#growmidwives
www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2020/10/20/chelsea-clinton-vc-firm-metrodora-ventures-oula/amp/
Chelsea Clinton's Metrodora Ventures ramps up
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Clinton's latest investment is in maternal health startup Oula.As I experience and synthesize internal conversations about deeply rooted and engrained racism in every corner of America, midwifery is no exception.
My thoughts.
Acknowledgement of the history of midwifery in the US is an imperative. As I continue to read articles, books, and listen to speakers discuss the evolution of American obstetrics, gynecology and midwifery, I continue to wonder why information highlighted in the article by Miles and Drew was absent during my undergraduate and graduate nursing and midwifery education. Why the painful history, chillingly described in Deirdre Cooper Owens book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, published in 2017, was only known by me since early last year.
It is time to act.
Learning and listening demands aligning to address urgently needed action. Action that highlights need to grow a diverse midwifery workforce for BIPOC families — families impacted with the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in the US for decades. A workforce of community-based professionals providing culturally congruent care is one step. A step articulated in the Momnibus Act of 2020. Title IV focus is specific to creating this diverse workforce. www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6142. Learn more about this Act comprised of nine bills. Many groups are working together to increase awareness of this sweeping action to address maternal health.
Bringing US midwifery together has never been more urgently needed. Using collective leverage to claim our key role in US maternity care requires that the reckoning being called out and work together to address racist policy.
As a reader of Ibram X Kendis anti-racist work, “Our belief is that framing research on race and racism around antiracist questions leads to antiracist narratives, effective policy solutions, and impactful advocacy campaigns that cut to the root of racial inequality: racist policy.” www.ibramxkendi.com/antiracism-center-2
And while I continue to learn, I will act in ways and places that I have influence, power and privilege to raise awareness to reconstruct a socially just future.
Thank you Mimi and Michelle. 🧡
nursingclio.org/2020/10/22/constructing-the-modern-american-midwife-white-supremacy-and-white-fem...
Constructing the Modern American Midwife: White Supremacy and White Feminism Collide
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The year 2020 marks one of those global tipping points – time divided into pre-COVID and the promise of after COVID, as well as open rallying cries to topple white patriarchal supremacy. Serendipit....