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Baystate Health is a non-profit [2] integrated healthcare system headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts, primarily serving Western Massachusetts.The system comprises four acute-care hospitals [2] encompassing over 1,000 licensed beds; [3] a multi-specialty group, Baystate Medical Practices, which includes over 700 physicians across 40 care locations; [3] and a health maintenance ...
Margaret Charles Smith (September 12, 1906–November 12, 2004) was an African-American midwife, who became known for her extraordinary skill over a long career, spanning over thirty years. [1] Despite working primarily in rural areas with women who were often in poor health, she lost very few of the more than 3000 babies she delivered, and ...
Prenatal care in the United States is a health care preventive care protocol recommended to women with the goal to provide regular check-ups that allow obstetricians-gynecologists, family medicine physicians, or midwives to detect, treat and prevent potential health problems throughout the course of pregnancy while promoting healthy lifestyles that benefit both mother and child. [1]
Baystate said they are diligently focused on their efforts over the next two years to transform and create a clear path to consistency, predictability, profitability and growth. Local News Headlines
Black women are 3 times more likely to die in childbirth. Black midwife Ebony Marcelle of Community of Hope Birth Center is changing outcomes for her patients.
Midwifery-led continuity of care is where one or more midwives have the primary responsibility for the continuity of care for childbearing women, with a multidisciplinary network of consultation and referral with other health care providers. This is different from "medical-led care" where an obstetrician or family physician is primarily ...
The CM program includes identical content in midwifery and women's health as the CNM program, but does not require a nursing degree. [6] Currently, the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education accredites two programs whose graduates are eligible for either the CNM or CM credential: the Midwifery Institute at Jefferson and the State ...
Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare.It is provided in the form of medical checkups, consisting of recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle and the provision of medical information such as maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins, which prevents potential health problems ...