Women’s Care Midwifery Service earns national recognition

PROVIDENCE – Women’s Care Midwifery Service, part of the Care New England Medical Group, received a Golden Commendation from the American College of Nurse Midwives.
The service received the award for providing innovative and compassionate midwifery care to families for more than 20 years, reported Care New England.
The practice, which includes Fiona Clement, Jennifer Hopley, Maggie Kuch, Linda Nanni, Lisa Pile, Cynthia Siegeland and Danielle Weisner, was recognized at the ACNM’s recent regional meeting in November. Golden Commendations recognize practices for helping to expand access to women’s health care and “putting the heart of midwifery into practice,” according to the ACNM website.
Women’s Care Midwifery Service was opened in 1996 to provide the full array of medical services to all women, from teenagers to the elderly.
“In addition to offering care in our Providence office, we see patients in Woonsocket, East Greenwich, East Providence, at community health centers in Coventry and Cranston, and at two inner city offices,” Nanni, a founding member of the practice and its current director, said in the statement. “This has allowed the entire population to have access to midwifery services, regardless of location, social risk, ethnicity or medical risk.”
The ACNM award recognizes this legacy.
“The spirit of midwifery lives and breathes within Women’s Care,” Nanni said. “We put the patients’ needs and desires first. We seek to develop safe plans for birth regardless of whether the patient is low-risk or more medically complex and requiring medical collaboration. We are especially enthusiastic about attending some of our births at Women & Infants’ Alternative Birthing Center.”

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