Recent Blogs
Fair Market Value in Midwifery Employment Arrangements
Fair Market Value | March 11, 2021 An informative conversation with #GrowMidwives team Joe and Ginger as they discuss fair market value concepts and current scenarios. After a comprehensive legal overview, highlights include what (if any) implications around FMV...
RVUs a Primer for Midwives
RVUs and Midwifery - Really? Yes, many Midwives work under specific contract clauses for a base salary, incentive bonus and/or annual performance metrics. Do RVUs bring value to the midwife? Yes, monetarily they can, and also, RVUs can bring many challenges, hardships...
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...
Professional liability coverage: 411 for Midwives on Claims-made, Occurrence, Nose, Tail and Gap (Recorded June 17, 2020)
To address concern with increasing trends in poorly written midwifery contracts and to enhance awareness of professional liability coverage, a 90-minute, live, interactive Webinar was provided by the Grow Midwives team of Joseph Booth and Ginger Breedlove. Discussion...
Blogs from 2018
Stuck – Assessing here and now while thinking forward!
We all have been there. Trying to figure out why our professional career or practice is not growing. How can we figure out ways to collaborate better, work more efficiently, reignite shared passion, implement meaningful performance indicators, and advocate for...
Nobody Told Me About That
Did you, a friend or family member experience a fully supported, well informed, calm postpartum experience? Isn’t that what most new parent’s hope for and expect? An easy transition most health care providers must believe, as families are sent home 48 hours...
Webinar Follow-Up: What has the Pinard Taught Us?
On June 21, 2018, Ginger and Lesley from the Grow Midwives team hosted an intimate webinar exploring the lessons the wonderful tool known as the Pinard has taught the midwifery community. If you would like to follow along with the presentation, Ginger’s...
What is a Pinard? – The World’s Oldest Tool For Hearing Fetal Heartbeats
In 1895, Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934) a French obstetrician, designed an elegant, trumpet-shaped instrument for listening to babies in utero. This trumpet was made of wood and featured a single diameter opening drilled through the center. Using this simple tool,...
Webinar Follow-Up: How to Market a Birth Center or Midwifery Business Online
On May, 29 2018, Peter Soto hosted a webinar for Grow Midwives exploring the basics of marketing a birth center and other midwifery related businesses online. If you would like to consult with Peter or any of the other Grow Midwives team, reach out on our...
How to Market a Birth Center or Midwifery Business Online in 2018
Running a successful midwifery business or birth center in 2018 is nearly impossible without a quality online presence. Consumers today are used to interacting with businesses when they want, where they want, on their own terms. That means potential clients are...
Blogs from 2017
Grow Midwives Webinar Follow-Up: Conducting a Meaningful Community Assessment When Opening a Birth Center or Midwifery Service
In case you missed it, here is the video and transcription of the Webinar "Conducting a Meaningful Community Assessment" with Ginger Breedlove and Lesley Rathbun on Wednesday, December 20, 2018. If you haven't signed up already, make sure to join our newsletter to...
Season’s Greetings: A Call To Mentor Future Midwives
By Ginger Breedlove As we move through the December holidays and into the New Year, I wanted to take a moment to encourage everyone in the Grow Midwives community to reflect on how they can give back. Even during this time of great political partisanship, we...
How to Open a Birth Center or New Midwife Practice: Identifying Community Needs
By Lesley Rathbun So, you think you want to open a birth center or start a Midwifery service? Understanding the challenges and opportunities of developing either model by performing a Community Needs Assessment is essential to success. More than a decade ago, I...
Barriers and Recommendations for Midwives in Independent Practice
In case you missed it, here is the video and transcription of the Webinar "Barriers and Recommendations for Independent Practice" with Ginger Breedlove from Grow Midwives on Thursday, November 30, 2018. Below the video and at the bottom of the page, you...
Grow Midwives Response to Freakonomics Radio Podcast Titled “Nurses to the Rescue” (11/15/17)
By Ginger Breedlove After finishing the most recent Freakonomics podcast on Nurse Practitioners (NPs) filling the workforce shortage in primary health care, I was disheartened by the negative sentiment prevalent in the comments. If you haven’t heard the...
Maternal Mortality in the United States is Worse Than Every Other Developed Country in the World and Midwives can Save Lives
By Ginger Breedlove Is the maternal mortality rate in the United States really higher than every other developed country in the world? Yes, and it’s getting worse. Considering the magnitude of this public health crisis, it’s astounding how few seem to be...