Midwifery care is built on trust, relationship, and the belief that birth is a normal, powerful life event. Across the world, midwives practice in birth centers, home-like facilities, outside of hospitals, that offer comprehensive reproductive and sexual health care. Birth centers offer longer, more personalized visits and comprehensive care and education.

This model leads to fewer unnecessary interventions, lower cesarean rates, strong breastfeeding outcomes, and high family satisfaction — while maintaining seamless collaboration with hospitals and physicians when higher-level care is needed. By combining clinical excellence with deep community connection, birth center care improves not only outcomes, but the experience of being cared for.

Eastern MA currently has no freestanding birth center. Neighborhood Birth Center will fill that gap while expanding access to comprehensive, insurance-covered midwifery care across the reproductive lifespan.