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Midwives Help Fill Maternity Care Gaps as California Faces OB-GYN Shortage
Patients’ access to birthing services would improve if numerous obstacles to midwives’ efforts were removed.
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Midwifery Care in California
Learn about midwifery care and California’s midwife workforce in this collection of CHCF resources.
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The Untapped Power of Midwives in California’s Maternity Care Ecosystem
California has a skilled midwifery workforce that’s ready to plug gaps in patient-centered, high-quality birthing care.
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Maternity Workforce Insights
This series of conversations takes a look at the critical roles of doulas, lactation professionals, mental health professionals, and midwives.
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Shifting the Narrative About Black Birthing Experiences
A conversation with birth equity advocate Kimberly Seals Allers about improving maternity care for Black women and birthing people.
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UCSF Favors Pricey Doctoral Program for Nurse-Midwives Amid Maternal Care Crisis
Midwives questioned the university’s motivations at a time when the state has serious shortages of maternity care workers.
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Diverse Maternity Care Workforce Essential to Advance Birth Equity
A conversation with midwife Angela Sojobi about her decades of experience and the urgent need for more Black midwifery students.
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Advancing Midwifery and Birth Equity in California
Midwives assist people with low- to moderate-risk pregnancies and are a growing component of the maternity workforce in California.
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Nurse Practitioners Can Offer More Abortion Care in Underserved Areas
A conversation with Sarah McNeil, family medicine doctor and family planning specialist focused on expanding health care access.
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Spreading the Stories of Joyful Black Births
Kimberly Seals Allers talks about her new podcast aimed at debunking negative media narratives about Black childbirth.
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Efforts to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality Complicated by COVID-19
Stories That Caught Our Attention: How can we support Black mothers and birthing people during a pandemic that is amplifying health disparities?
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California’s Midwives: How Scope of Practice Laws Impact Care
To ensure that women’s health care needs are met, national organizations recommend that the midwifery workforce increase. This paper provides information on the different professional licensures, regulatory schemes, and scopes of practice for midwives in California and briefly reviews how…
