Ginger Breedlove: The Landscape of Midwifery in the US

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Dr. Ginger Breedlove is a past president of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and has led many national initiatives to address and improve perinatal health in the United States. Over her 45-year career she co-founded the first licensed, free-standing birthing center in Topeka, Kansas in 1979; the first hospital-based midwifery service at St Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri in 1994; and in 1999 established and directed over 10 years the University of Kansas graduate Nurse-Midwife program. She is a widely published author in numerous journals and publications, national speaker, and has received over $5 million dollars as principal investigator in grant funded projects related to health care for women. In 2017 she co-founded March for Moms with Dr. Neel Shah serving as founding President. In 2017 she also founded a national consulting company Grow Midwives LLC that has expanded to include GM Billing & Recovery Services. In 2018 Dr. Breedlove edited and launched a best-selling book for new parents titled, Nobody Told Me About That! The 2nd Ed., Nobody Told Me About That, Surviving and Thriving Through the Early Weeks of Parenting was published in April 2023. Dr. Breedlove recently completed the Harvard Business School Negotiation Mastery Certification program in August 2023.
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