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Council hears updates on midwife workforce, new education grants and payment model
Summary
Chair Madelyn Weisner briefed the council on wildfire impacts on midwives, two HCAI education grants totaling $1,000,000 for midwifery training in California, and a payment model from Midwifery Access California aimed at improving reimbursement for licensed midwives.
Madelyn Weisner, chair of the Midwifery Advisory Council, said licensed midwives have been stretched by this year's wildfires and that midwives have continued to provide care in disrupted conditions, sometimes without electricity.
Weisner also reported that the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) awarded two $500,000 grants to expand midwifery education in California, one to a community college program in Ridgecrest and one to…
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