At 23 weeks, Asia Brown described herself as a “crazy, frantic pregnant lady,” researching all of her options for the birth of her first child. Brown, 23, an African-American woman who lives in ...

A few years ago I visited Dar a Luz, the only free-standing birth center in New Mexico. It looks nothing like the towering urban hospitals I have spent my career working in. Nestled into a valley at ...

Connecticut mothers will soon have more choices as to where they have their baby delivered in the state. Gov. Ned Lamont has signed legislation allowing free-standing birth centers to operate in ...

Bills to exempt free-standing birth centers from Kentucky's certificate-of-need law have cleared committees in the House and Senare and are poised for floor votes, despite opposition from the chair of ...