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The Birth and Wellness Center is working hard to become the first birth center in the St. Louis area. Nationally certified midwives will provide women's health and childbirth care to the St. Louis metro area. Our team is currently providing this care in a home-based model.
We understand how important it is for women to have the birth center as an option for their maternity care, and we are anxious to start providing care in a birth center setting. The Department of Health and Senior Services has recently removed a major obstacle from birth centers in Missouri. We are currently searching for a facility in which to open our practice and refining our business and practice models based on the new information from DHSS. As a new concept for this area, we have lots to do to educate regulators, form relationships with hospitals and physicians, and work through a regulating process with people who have never regulated a birth center before. We have made a lot of progress, but there is much yet to accomplish. Once we have a clear idea of when we will be able to open we will make big announcements on our website, Facebook page, and via our mailing list. We are hesitant to set a date because of the number of unknowns involved, but we estimate that it will be early 2012 before all the permits and licenses can be finalized.
If you're expecting, would like more information about our home birth services, would like to be added to our mailing list, or have any other questions, please contact us.
