Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson and maternal healthcare advocates held a press conference Wednesday in Norwood to highlight the maternal health crisis in the Bronx and call for a Bronx ...

Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson held a rally Monday in the Norwood section to call for a birthing center to be placed in the borough. Gibson said the center is severely needed to help combat ...

As hospitals close their birthing units, independent midwives are reluctant to provide care in areas without a safety net.

The project, officially called Community Movement Commons, was proposed for an almost 20,000-square-foot space at the ...

As hospitals close their birthing units, independent midwives are reluctant to provide care in areas without a safety net.

Potter-Rivera ultimately gave birth at Holly No. 7, a freestanding birth center in Bangor that saw an 82% increase ... To get regular coverage from the Monitor, sign up for a free Monitor newsletter ...

At Wednesday’s ceremony, Charlie Maikish, who was the director of the World Trade Center in 1993, delivered remarks, as did ...

The Health Care Advocate also supported S.27 and further DSH funding. Freestanding Birth Centers: The Senate Health and Welfare Committee discussed S.18, a bill that would license freestanding birth ...

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has shared plans to close its Bloomin' Babies Birth Center in Grand Junction, Colo., effective March 28. The closure comes amid a declining birth rate and ...

Not only is the Alexandria Republican the major force behind the creation of freestanding birthing centers, an excellent, progressive idea, she’s also creating a Kentucky fried version of Make ...

In the process, they pioneered the homelike free-standing birth center, which would later become important in attracting middle-class women to nurse-midwives and in developing the autonomy of the ...