Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, wanted to improve access to maternal health care in a state that's long ...

This toolkit supports integrated care boards (ICBs), their place-based partners, health and care providers to work with service users and professionals to improve the postnatal care experience and ...

The Lovelady Center in Birmingham has purchased a 56-unit apartment complex for their NextStep aftercare program, Executive Director Melinda MeGahee said. “As The Lovelady Center has grown, as housing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Home births have doubled in the area served by a scandal-hit hospital that was forced to close its maternity unit earlier this ...

The Maternal Care Bundle (MCB) sets best practice standards across 5 areas of clinical care, for implementation by NHS providers and commissioners across England. The aim is to reduce maternal ...

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In the Kyiv region, volunteers in the civilian defense force uses heavy machine guns to help defend against aerial attacks. One unit is made up almost entirely of women, inspiring the nickname the ...