The Midwife’s Place in Bellevue, Neb., the state’s first and only free-standing birth center, will close July 28. In a letter sent to patients, the center said, “The reasons for the closure are many, ...
From a purely demographic standpoint, closing the Bloomin’ Babies Birth Center makes sense because a consistently declining birth rate in Mesa County and across the Western Slope is affecting demand ...
But about six months after the center’s first delivery — a girl who was Alabama’s first baby born in a freestanding birth center — the state health department ordered Skanes to shut it down. A ...