Florida state Sen. Gayle Harrell, the Republican who sponsored the birth center bill, said having a C-section outside of a hospital may seem like a radical change, but so was the opening of ...

Last year, Connecticut, South Carolina and West Virginia repealed certificate of need requirements for birthing centers. Policymakers who favor relaxed rules view birthing centers as vital to ...

Karneshia Jemison in a room of the birth center where she was hoping to deliver ... a full kitchen to keep the laboring women nourished. Outside, she sat beneath a weeping willow, considering ...

We want them to talk to us and give us valid reasons why they are shutting down the birthing unit.” Gresham said the group rallied outside Parkview Regional Medical Center because they wanted ...

For seven years Boone's Healing Passages Birth and Wellness Center has operated in Des Moines ... be because insurers and medical providers view the practice with skepticism, she said.

BEVERLY - Demonstrators rallied outside Beverly Hospital Monday afternoon, protesting plans to close the North Shore Birth Center there. Organizers say the center is a vital part of maternal care ...

MARGATE, FLA. (WSVN) - A Ring doorbell camera outside of a birthing center in Margate captured a mother giving birth to her child just steps away from its doors. The mother gave birth outside the ...

having her baby outside a hospital. Home births and deliveries in low-tech “birthing centers” are rising rapidly in Utah, whose rate of out-of-hospital births is among the highest in the nation.

While those who deliver at home or in birth centers are much more likely to have a normal, vaginal delivery, there is also a small but statistically significant increase in risk for adverse baby ...

But for the North Asheville couple that fact doesn't mean childbirth isn't universally an intimate, even sacred, procedure, something enhanced by the holistic approach of birth centers.