Your State Affiliates at Work: Increasing Access to Midwifery Care Nationwide
Affiliate leaders are already busy in the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife with efforts to increase access to midwifery care nationwide. ACNM will continue to support our affiliates for the 2020 state...
Eliminating the Racial Disparities Contributing to the Rise in U.S. Maternal Mortality: Perspectives from...
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Valuing the Lives of All Mothers
As the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) continues recognition of the Year of the...
Redocumentation of Evaluation and Management Services No Longer Required for CNMs
On Friday, November 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) released its CY 2020 final
rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The physician fee schedule
dictates Medicare payment rates and policies...
House Passes Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed by voice vote H.R. 728,
the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act, a bipartisan bill
introduced by Reps. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Dave Joyce (R-OH). The
legislation...
Failing Mothers of Color – Yet Again!
The COVID-19 crisis adds a new dimension to the maternal mortality crisis for New Yorkers. In New York City, Black women are eight times more likely to die of causes related to...
Midwives for Universal Health Care: Now Is the Time to Get Involved
New ACNM Connect group is advocating for health care reform and needs your help.
For years, a solid base of activists comprised largely of
physicians and nurses has championed...
House Introduces Bipartisan BABIES Act
Earlier this week,
Representatives Katherine Clark (D-MA) and Buddy Carter (R-GA) introduced bipartisan legislation to
expand access to freestanding birth centers for women with low-risk pregnancies
(i.e., uncomplicated singleton term pregnancies with a vertex presentation with
an expected...
Midwives for Universal Healthcare: Activism for a more Equitable Healthcare System
Midwives for Universal Healthcare (MUH) is a group of activist midwives, midwifery students, and birthworkers that formed organically in 2018 following an impassioned plea from founding member Susan Kamin on ACNM Connect....
Statement of Strong Medical Consensus for Vaccination of Pregnant Individuals Against COVID-19
The following is a joint statement between the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists | American Academy of Family Physicians | American Academy of PAs | American Academy of Pediatrics | American...
Raising Awareness for MOMS Act
ACNM is reaching out to all members of the midwifery community for help in raising awareness of, and support for, the Midwives for Maximizing Optimal Maternity Services Act, H.R. 3352/S. 1697. To...