Midwifery practice startup costs
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We are Megan O'Connor and Liz Pickett. You may know us as The Hudson Valley Office of Capital Region Midwifery. Unfortunately, due to our committment to taking all insurances including Medicaid which does not reimburse for services adequately, our parent company has had to make a difficult business decision to close our Kingston office.
Over the course of our short year in business, we have had the privilege of caring for women from all walks of life. We have "caught" babies, provided gynecological care, primary care, and support for women and girls as young as age 7 up through age 67 and we are honored to have done so.
Unfortunately, due to the timing of our office closing on August 1, we will have pregnant patients who will be left without prenatal care, labor and delivery services, and postpartum care through December. After exhausting many different possibilities, we have found ourselves without a home base and are in the process of setting up an independent midwifery and womens health care service on our own. The costs to set up shop are much more than we anticipated and we are asking for your support.
We are lucky enough to be doing deliveries at Kingston Hospital in mid-town Kingston. For those of you who aren't aware, Kingston New York is an urban population center. Although we have patients who travel from all over the mid-hudson valley to obtain our services, our base is the city of Kingston where 38.1% of families live in poverty according to the 2015 Poverty Report issued by New York State Community Action. We believe all women deserve midwifery care and this is one of the reasons why we remain performing deliveries at the Kingston Family Birthplace at Kingston Hospital. The facility is Ulster County's best kept birth option secret. They are Baby Friendly, have water birth options, and a phenominal nursing staff.
With the money we collect from your generous donations, we will be able to purchase malpractice insurance, pay our billing company, afford office space, supplies, and run day to day operations in order to make sure our pregnant patients have care and to provide womens healthcare services for the underserved. We would like to meet our goal by July 15 to provide seamless care for our exisiting patients.
Our goal as midwives is not only to provide stellar healthcare services for women, it is also to ensure that women have a voice and a say in their own healthcare choices. A typical visit for routine gynecological care with us is about 45 minutes and we are mostly listening, not talking. It is our goal to protect all of our patients dignity, no matter what their background, income or sexual orientation may be.
Megan and Liz would like to thank you in advance, no matter what you are able to donate. We would also like to hear from you what services you would like to see implemented in our practice. Our practice is your practice so please let us know. We are forever grateful for your love, kind words, and support. Thank you all so very much.
From the very bottom of our hearts, thank you.
Over the course of our short year in business, we have had the privilege of caring for women from all walks of life. We have "caught" babies, provided gynecological care, primary care, and support for women and girls as young as age 7 up through age 67 and we are honored to have done so.
Unfortunately, due to the timing of our office closing on August 1, we will have pregnant patients who will be left without prenatal care, labor and delivery services, and postpartum care through December. After exhausting many different possibilities, we have found ourselves without a home base and are in the process of setting up an independent midwifery and womens health care service on our own. The costs to set up shop are much more than we anticipated and we are asking for your support.
We are lucky enough to be doing deliveries at Kingston Hospital in mid-town Kingston. For those of you who aren't aware, Kingston New York is an urban population center. Although we have patients who travel from all over the mid-hudson valley to obtain our services, our base is the city of Kingston where 38.1% of families live in poverty according to the 2015 Poverty Report issued by New York State Community Action. We believe all women deserve midwifery care and this is one of the reasons why we remain performing deliveries at the Kingston Family Birthplace at Kingston Hospital. The facility is Ulster County's best kept birth option secret. They are Baby Friendly, have water birth options, and a phenominal nursing staff.
With the money we collect from your generous donations, we will be able to purchase malpractice insurance, pay our billing company, afford office space, supplies, and run day to day operations in order to make sure our pregnant patients have care and to provide womens healthcare services for the underserved. We would like to meet our goal by July 15 to provide seamless care for our exisiting patients.
Our goal as midwives is not only to provide stellar healthcare services for women, it is also to ensure that women have a voice and a say in their own healthcare choices. A typical visit for routine gynecological care with us is about 45 minutes and we are mostly listening, not talking. It is our goal to protect all of our patients dignity, no matter what their background, income or sexual orientation may be.
Megan and Liz would like to thank you in advance, no matter what you are able to donate. We would also like to hear from you what services you would like to see implemented in our practice. Our practice is your practice so please let us know. We are forever grateful for your love, kind words, and support. Thank you all so very much.
From the very bottom of our hearts, thank you.
Organizer
Liz Pickett
Organizer
New Paltz, NY
