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Increasing Local Midwifery Options
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Increasing Local Midwifery Options
Anyone can help help get more midiwfery coverage/options in Madison.
There are 3 main areas of focus for improving childbirth options in Madison right now:
1) winning midwifery and out-of-hospital coverage through GHC
2) getting midwives at St. Marys Hospital
3) restoring vbac privileges to the midwives at UW Health/Meriter
GHC Annual Meeting
Please Support Midwifery care for women. GHC is considering "alternative birthing" practices at their upcoming meeting.
Community support is extremely important
. If you are a current or potential GHC member...
Tell them you want out-of-hospital and/or midwifery coverage!
**WRITE TO**
Group Health Cooperative
Attn: Dr. Michael Ostrov
1265 John Q Hammons Dr.
PO Box 44971
Madison, WI 53744
- Your voice will be incredibly effective if you also -
**ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING**
Usually May of each year
Midwifery Privileges at St. Mary's Hospital
Midwives need admitting privileges at St Marys Hospital in order to care for women there. Write to the CEO of St. Marys'and tell him you want midwifery care at his hospital.
**WRITE TO**
Frank Byrne, CEO
St. Marys Hospital & Medical Center
700 Park Street
Madison, WI 53715
VBAC Privileges Fo the Midwives at UW Health/Meriter
The UW midwives have been trying for years to win back vbac privileges, so that they can help women who have had c-sections succeed in having vaginal births with their next babies. The midwives lost vbac privileges at a time when there was no 24-hour attending OB for emergency cesareans. Now there is 24/7 OB presence at Meriter, and therefore it is time to let midwives attend vbacs again, because they have very high vbac success rates!
**WRITE TO**
James Woodward
CEO/Meriter Hospital
202 S. Park St.
Madison, WI 53715.
Consumer letters are THE most important catalyst for making those changes happen. Letters comprise a written record of consumer demand that can be shared at committee and board meetings.
The preceding information about what consumers can do to support this cause was provided by Ingird Anderson of
Community Nurse Midwives
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