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
Learn more about our Services
Our Thoughts
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...
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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The best way to grow your mission, business, or even industry is by partnering with other people that can build upon that vision with you. That's why we've created new content with Marketing TEA to do just that. Grow Midwives is interested in seeing midwifery grow in every way, and we want to showcase our passion and information with everyone in effective and entertaining ways. Stay tuned for all of the new exciting content that is coming your way!
Working to change US Maternity Care. Honored to be part of the movement.
*PA Organizations - FUNDING SOURCE
"With funding from the Heinz Endowments and Merck for Mothers, the WHAMglobal Community Fund is offering grant support for five community-based organizations. The fund will provide small grants of $20,000 to build collaborative partnerships, coordinate services, share best practices, receive training and technical assistance, and build consensus on priorities for improving maternal health outcomes in communities hardest hit by maternal health disparities. Applications are now open, and the application deadline is Friday, August 21 at 5:00 PM." -- [will include organizations interested in building more collaborative networks among their peer community-based organizations, sharing best practices, and working together to strengthen their impact in their communities toward improving maternal health outcomes. As part of the grantee selection process, WHAMglobal will prioritize funding for organizations led by women of color serving the community in Allegheny County, PA.]
www.jhf.org/news-blog-menu/entry/whamglobal-solidifies-plans-for-role-in-future-of-maternity-care...
www.jhf.org
WHAMglobal continues to make new connections in maternal health leadership. On July 7 and 9, WHAMglobal team members joined other Safer Childbirth Cities project teams from around the country for a tw...Published today from UK OB/GYN online source.
A good historical read for many reasons.
To learn insight in how the UK is managing childbirth and Covid, if you are a history fan and want to understand how midwifery responded in war times, and to have a sense of why families are challenged in every corner of the globe by this yet to be managed pandemic.
#midwivessavelives
#2020yearofthemidwife
#GrowMidwives
#growconsumers
medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-birth-national-emergency-world-war.html
Birth at a time of national emergency: from the second world war to coronavirus
medicalxpress.com
Women the world over have had their pregnancy and birth experiences drastically altered as a result of the global pandemic. In the UK, the NHS had to quickly put measures in place to ensure that it co...Excited to see this recent marketing piece by the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics promoting their expanding Midwife service, a group that has demonstrated inter-professional collaboration, inter-professional education, and now expanding to fill gaps in rural health needs — for more than 20 years.
Honored to have facilitated two on-site Midwifery Service retreats over the past two years and watch the team scale up midwifery-led care.
Congratulations to Laura Murphy Dellos, Lastascia Coleman and their eight midwives on UI midwifery team! uihc.org/doctors?providers%5Bquery%5D=Midwives
#2020YearoftheMidwife
#GrowMidwives
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