CABC accreditation isn’t a one-person side project. It touches policies, space design, documentation, and daily care—and it’s labor intensive. With tailored CABC consulting services, your birth center gets customized policies, chart reviews, and staff training that fit your workflows, protect compliance, and build credibility with families and referral partners.

Many birth centers add services because clients truly need them—but without tracking the numbers, those same services can quietly sink the whole ship. “No margin, no mission” isn’t about chasing profit. It’s about making sure your birth center stays open long enough to keep serving families.

This May 5th, we're celebrating International Day of the Midwife in a powerful way: by advocating for the future of midwifery care in New York State. Honoring Midwives Through Midwifery Advocacy International Day of the Midwife, established by the International Confederation of Midwives in 1992, recognizes the essential contributions midwives make to maternal and newborn health worldwide. This year's theme, "One Million More Midwives," couldn't be more relevant to the midwife

Becoming a parent through adoption or surrogacy is every bit as real—and often more complex—as pregnancy and birth. This post explores why birth centers, adoption and surrogacy belong together in your planning, and shares one adoptive mom’s story plus practical steps birth centers can take so non‑birthing parents feel seen, supported and truly welcomed.

Sustainable birth centers are built on heart, but too often they’re held back by “sacred cows” like doing everything in-house, never saying no, or figuring out the finances later. This post explores how leaders can name and gently challenge those ingrained practices—like in-house labs, long appointments, and open-access scheduling—without losing the soul of midwifery-led care, and offers a practical framework and script to bring staff into thoughtful, values-aligned redesign.

Black women in America are dying in childbirth at more than three times the rate of white women — and this crisis has a history. From the Granny Midwives who attended 75% of all births through the 1940s to the federal data proving birth centers close the racial gap, the path forward is rooted in what we've always known. This Black Maternal Health Week, here's what the evidence shows and what communities can do right now.

Quarter one is the perfect moment to step back and ask: is your birth center actually on track, financially and operationally, or are you just hoping it is? In this post, we’ll walk through a simple birth center financial dashboard—birth volume, reimbursements, staffing costs, cash, and owner pay—and pair it with operational and compliance check-ins so you can spot what’s working, what’s drifting, and exactly where to focus next for Q2.

Collaboration in birth work is more than a buzzword—it’s how we keep families safe. At “And Still We Birth” in the Bronx, I saw OBs, midwives, doulas and community members learning together, proving that humble, team‑based maternity care is not only possible, it’s essential.

Your front desk is one of the most powerful drivers of birth center front desk revenue. With clear systems and the right people, it does more than answer phones—it captures payments, verifies insurance, keeps the schedule full, converts inquiries, and delivers an intentional, relationship-centered client experience.

Most regulations still treat birth centers like mini‑hospitals, but most women are healthy people experiencing a normal life event, not patients in need of surgery. In this post, I explore how birth center design grounded in physiology, relationship-based midwifery care and community needs can improve safety, sustainability and equity for families while challenging hospital-centric rules that often work against the very outcomes they claim to protect.

Birth center interior design lives where heart, safety, and regulation meet. In this Q&A, designer and mom of five Michal Miara shares how to plan before you hire a designer, create a homelike yet compliant space, and keep multi‑site birth centers on brand without feeling cookie‑cutter.

On International Women’s Day, I’m holding the tension between celebration and urgency. We’ve made real progress for women and girls, yet maternal health outcomes around the world still reveal how uneven that progress truly is. This piece explores how midwifery‑led, community‑rooted care and birth centers can help create a future where every birthing person is treated with dignity and respect.

A birth center can’t run on one person’s shoulders forever—especially when that person is also catching babies. In this post, I unpack why “doing everything yourself” quietly fuels midwife burnout and puts your team and clients at risk, and I offer a practical framework to start delegating systems work without sacrificing quality. If you’re a midwife‑owner juggling clinical care, operations, HR, billing and compliance, this guide will help you protect your energy, support you

In this interview, health equity consultant Andrea Mantsios, PhD, MHS, explains what Health Equity Impact Assessments (HEIAs) are, when New York birth centers need them, and how they can use the process to prevent unintended harms, strengthen community relationships, and improve access and equity—especially for medically underserved birthing people—while getting clear, step-by-step support from an experienced independent team like PHIA.

Intentional financial planning and market-rate owner compensation are key to long-term birth center sustainability.

Birth centers operate on thin margins, delayed reimbursement, and high fixed costs—making financial visibility essential for survival. This post outlines the most common financial red flags in birth center financial management, from A/R aging blind spots to unclear break-even volume, and explains how small gaps in oversight can quietly threaten long-term sustainability.

Learn how birth centers can set resilient goals, diversify revenue, manage payer risk and plan for growth in today’s uncertain financial climate.

Feeling like something in your birth center is off? Whether you’re launching a new center or strengthening an existing one, birth center consulting can help you gain clarity. Start 2026 with intentional planning, aligned systems and expert guidance tailored to your specific birth center.

Birth center trends 2025 reveal major shifts in maternity care, including growing maternity care deserts, new federal legislation, Medicaid payment reforms, and regulatory changes. This article breaks down what birth center owners, administrators, and midwives need to know—and how to prepare for sustainable growth in 2026 and beyond.

Birth center leaders are often so immersed in daily operations that you rarely have time to plan for the future. This post invites you to pause, reflect, and intentionally shape where your birth center is headed—financially, operationally, and clinically—so you can move from survival mode to sustainable, confident leadership.