~ Mission Statement ~

Birth Care and Family Health Services is a non-profit, life-affirming birth and women’s health center, specializing in the care of women throughout the life span.  Our mission is to provide safe, sensitive and satisfying midwifery care to families within our diverse community without regard to ability to pay.  Birth Care has a special ministry to providing quality care without discrimination for families of all social, religious, ethnic and economic backgrounds. 

Birth Care offers comprehensive health care by women for women of all ages.  We believe that successful health care is a partnership between each woman and her caregivers, and that health encompasses emotional and spiritual well-being together with physical health.  Birth Care has a strong focus on wellness counseling, health education, and the use of natural and complimentary therapies.

We promote family-centered childbirth and respect a woman’s right to control her birth experience. We believe in the health of pregnancy and birth and in every woman’s power to give birth naturally with minimal intervention.  We support women in their choice of birth setting, and attend births in homes, in our freestanding birth center, or in a community hospital.  We take special pride in our goal to welcome babies with gentle and loving hands.

Additional care by our certified nurse-midwives includes comprehensive prenatal care, as well as childbirth and breastfeeding classes; well woman gynecological care (annual exams and pap smears), gynecologic problem visits, and family planning.  We offer care and counseling for older women facing their unique health changes.  Birth Care offers all routine laboratory testing and medication prescriptions, and works closely with collaborating physicians when necessary.