Arkansas Department of Health: Programme und Dienstleistungen: Family Health: Lay Midwifery Direkteinstiegshebammen sind als lizenzierte Laienhebammen lizenziert. www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/LLM_Rules_Effective_6.1.18_Signature_Added.pdf Kontaktinformationen: Arkansas Department of Health 4815 West Markham Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 1-501-661-2000 oder 1-800-462-0599 Kansas Midwives: State Affiliate of the ACNM kansasmidwives.org/ Zertifizierte Krankenschwester-Hebammen sind als CNM lizenziert. www.dopl.utah.gov/licensing/certified_nurse_midwife.html Kontaktinformationen: 160 E 300 S Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telefon: 801-530-6628 E-Mail: doplweb@utah.gov New Hampshire Midwifery Council Direkteinstiegshebammen sind vom New Hampshire Midwifery Council als New Hampshire zertifizierte Hebammen zertifiziert. NH Council of Midwives contact information: nhmidwives.org/for-midwives.html President: Kathryn Cranford, ND, NHCM As maternal health inequalities in Virginia and across the country come under increasing scrutiny, there has been political pressure to address the issue. During that session, the General Assembly unanimously passed a bill to establish a working group to collect more data on maternal health and narrowly approved a bill to lift certain restrictions on midwives. South Dakota Docs for Midwives www.sddocsformidwives.org/?q=node/11 Montana Midwifery Association www.montanamidwives.org Arizona Association of Midwives www.azassocmidwives.com/ Contact Information: azassociationofmidwives@gmail.com, ArizonaStudentMidwives@gmail.com Association of Independent Midwives of Maryland Joint Association of CNMs and CPMs who practice or may practice home birthing in Maryland, www.aimmidwives.org/AIMM/Home.html contact information: Email: info@aimmidwives.org But efforts to achieve national adoption of CPMs finally seem to have gained momentum. Since 1994, when it became available, 15 states have accepted CPM certification from the North American Registry of Midwives, three in the past two years. And last month, for the first time, the American Public Health Association issued a statement of support for CPMs, calling on state lawmakers to legalize independent midwives. Direct entry midwives are admitted as licensed midwives. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners: Licensed Midwives www.lsbme.la.gov/licensure/licensed-midwives Contact Information: Physical Address: 630 Camp St, New Orleans, LA 70130 Mailing Address: PO Box 30250, New Orleans, LA 70190-0250 Phone: (504) 568-7767 Ext. 259 Fax: (504) 568-6823 Email: lsbme@lsbme.la.gov Virginia Department of Health Professions: Board of Medicine: Midwifery Advisory Board Direct Entry Midwives are licensed midwives. www.dhp.virginia.gov/Medicine/advisory/mw/ Contact Information: Virginia Board Of Medicine Perimeter Center 9960 Mayland Drive, Suite 300 Henrico, VA 23233-1463 Phone: 804-367-4600 The law in Virginia, the example I know best, has not always been so restrictive. In 1976, before lawmakers criminalized midwives other than midwives, the state issued 650 permits for home birth midwives.
The number of “grandmother” licensees has declined over the years, and today only one, Adela Scott Wilson, 62, of Virginia Beach, continues her work. She has no plans to retire. “I don`t know how,” she says. But Wilson cannot serve the entire state and sees a danger in the lack of access to legal midwives for home births. “It is not fair to deny women access to good care, and underground care is not good care. » Midwives Association of Alaska contact information www.midwivesofalaska.org: Midwives Assoc. of Alaska c/o Susan Terwilliger, President 11517 Old Glenn Highway Eagle River, Alaska 99577 (907) 694-1123 info@midwivesofalaska.org Vermont Secretary of State: Office of Professional Regulation: Registered Midwives Direct-entry midwives are licensed as registered midwives. www.sec.state.vt.us/professional-regulation/list-of-professions/. Contact information: 89 Main Street, 3rd Floor Montpelier, VT 05620-3402 Phone: 802-828-2373 Aprille Morrison Email: amorris@sec.state.vt.us After a long battle at the General Assembly, nurses have acquired the ability to practice independently, but only after five years of full-time clinical experience under medical supervision. While NJCs have never had a fully autonomous practice, some have argued that their mandatory practice agreement is much less restrictive than a cooperative agreement – which only required nurse midwives to register with a doctor who could advise on cases if necessary. Virginia`s failure to license CPMs is ironic, given that the State Legislature`s Joint Commission on Health Care reported in 1999 that “no empirical evidence shows that hospital deliveries are safer than home births.” Judith Rooks, an epidemiologist and obstetrics expert, says that “the overall evidence suggests that midwife-assisted or physician-assisted home births may be as safe as hospital deliveries,” provided competent midwives, easily accessible obstetric support, clear and generally accepted protocols, and no deterrent for transferring women to hospitals.
West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses Certified nurse midwives are licensed as registered nurse-midwives www.wvrnboard.com/default.asp?active_page_id=1 Contact Information: 101 Dee Drive, Suite 102 Charleston, WV 25311-1620 Phone: 304-558-3596 or 877-743-NURS (6877) Fax: 304-558-3666 Email: rnboard@wv.gov When I became pregnant four years ago, I knew I wanted to give birth from the comfort of my own house, with a trained midwife by my side, which guided me through the phases. labor, keeping a natural process that is sometimes risky, and catching my baby at birth. I had even seriously considered becoming a home birth midwife myself. It turns out that neither is an easy thing to achieve in Virginia — or in Maryland or the district, or in the other six states most hostile to lay midwifery work. In these states, not only are there no regulations for the approval of autonomous midwives trained in out-of-hospital deliveries, but these midwives are illegal.