Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth Announces the Arrival of the Midwife Center at Andrew's Women's Hospital
Contact: Mary Johnson, (817) 922-7088 or Sunny Drenik, (817) 922-7100Email: maryjohn@baylorhealth.edu or sunnydr@baylorhealth.edu
(FORT WORTH, Texas, December 7, 2007) - Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth announced today that The Midwife Center will be located on the campus of the Paul and Judy Andrews Women's Hospital starting on January 2, 2008.
The Midwife Center provides many services dedicated just for women. The services will include family planning, well-woman gynecology, prescriptions, prenatal care, labor and delivery management, pain management including epidural anesthesia, postpartum care and counseling in all areas of health maintenance.
A certified nurse-midwife (CNM) is trained as a nurse and as a midwife. Most CNMs have master's degrees, and all are certified by the body recognized by the American College of Nurse Midwives. They are a primary care provider for normal maternity, newborn and gynecological care. The CNMs are on the allied health professional staff at The Midwife Center at Andrews Women's Hospital and work with board-certified obstetricians/gynecologists who are members of the Baylor All Saints Medical Center medical staff.
"The most important part of our program is the individual care that each woman and family receives. We are very happy to have The Midwife Center as part of the Andrews Women's Hospital," says Janice Whitmire, administrator, Paul and Judy Andrews Women's Hospital. "The midwives truly make a difference in the lives of the communities we serve by providing high quality health care with compassion and respect for their patients."
The not-for-profit Baylor All Saints Medical Centers serve more than 100,000 people annually through two hospitals, numerous primary care physician centers and practices, a rehabilitation and fitness center, and a variety of medical specialties. Programs of excellence in cardiology, transplantation, neurosciences, oncology and women's services form the heart of the hospitals' services. All Saints joined Baylor Health Care System in January 2002. All Saints Health Foundation, a separately incorporated not-for-profit organization, raises and manages charitable funds to support Baylor All Saints Medical Centers. For fiscal year 2006, Baylor Health Care System reported $406 million in community benefit to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Physicians are members of the medical staff at one of Baylor Health Care System's subsidiary, community or affiliated medical centers and are neither employees nor agents of those medical centers, Baylor All Saints Medical Centers or Baylor Health Care System.
Certified Nurse-Midwives are members of the allied health professional staff at one of Baylor Health Care System's subsidiary, community or affiliated medical centers and are neither employees nor agents of those medical centers, Baylor All Saints Medical Centers or Baylor Health Care System.