midwife

After years of advocacy, freestanding birth centers will soon be easier to open in Kentucky, as activists say many women go to neighboring Tennessee and Indiana for childbirth.

A new legislative proposal would require Kentucky Medicaid to cover certain midwife services. It just cleared its first hurdle.

As deaths from pregnancy rise in U.S., ‘maternity care deserts’ stretch across rural areas

Legislation tied to midwifery across Kentucky generated a great deal of debate in the state Senate on Tuesday.The measure aims to define certain midwife…

Nurse midwives have delivered babies in the Ohio Valley for nearly 100 years. But as Mary Meehan reports, that traditional practice is getting a new push…