Unbundling CPT codes will reshape how birth centers bill, document care and manage revenue. Learn what leaders need to know now to prepare their teams, workflows and systems for the transition.

Opening a birth center takes more than passion. It requires a clear, strategic plan. Learn the five essential planning tracks that help founders avoid costly setbacks and build a sustainable, community-centered birth center.

Birth center closures rarely happen overnight—they're often preceded by subtle financial and operational warning signs that go unnoticed. Learn key indicators to watch, from payer mix and cash flow to owner underpay and survey readiness, so you can take proactive steps to protect your birth center's future before a crisis develops.

Birth center utilization data is more than numbers on a report, it’s the story of how families move through your care pathway. When you track visits, births, transfers and follow‑up with intention, utilization data becomes your strongest clinical and business tool for protecting physiologic birth, sustaining your midwifery‑led model and meeting quality expectations.

Designing a birth center is about more than pretty birth suites—it’s about how people, supplies, and emergencies move through your space. This post walks you from front desk to birth room, showing how thoughtful floor plans can protect safety, preserve calm, and make CABC and state compliance easier to demonstrate on survey day.

A reliable birth center supply system is one of those quiet wins you only notice when it’s missing—usually as you’re tossing expired meds or scrambling for basics. This post shares practical, low‑tech ways to create a zero‑surprises supply system with clear ownership, simple visual cues and predictable ordering so your team can focus on caring for families instead of fighting inventory.

Before a family ever walks through your doors, the way you define “who does what” is already shaping your team’s stress level, satisfaction, and staying power. This post shares how to design fair, realistic birth center roles that honor CABC and state requirements without burning out the people who make your care possible.

Birth centers are doing life‑changing work—yet behind the scenes, many are holding HR compliance together with spreadsheets, sticky notes, and last‑minute scrambles. Licenses, NRP/BLS, CLIA, fire drills, and annual competencies all live in different places, making audits and surveys way more stressful than they need to be. In this post, I’ll show you what strong HR compliance actually requires in a birth center and how to turn the payroll and HR tools you already have into a

Birth centers need simple, repeatable rituals that make it safe to tell the truth about the work. In this post, I share five birth center team rituals—labor huddles, post‑birth reflections, real‑time RCAs, monthly case circles, and quarterly pulse checks—that strengthen psychological safety, improve outcomes, and keep the heart of midwifery‑led care at the center of your operations.