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Gentle Landing owner outlines licensing, emergency transport and Medicaid limits for birth centers
Summary
Catherine Bramhall gave a virtual tour of Gentle Landing Birth Center in Hanover, N.H., describing licensing under New Hampshire rules, emergency equipment and hospital transport procedures, and saying Vermont Medicaid does not cover birth-center facility fees.
Catherine Bramhall, owner and midwife at Gentle Landing Birth Center, gave a virtual tour of the Hanover, N.H., facility and described its licensing, emergency equipment and hospital-transport procedures during a virtual meeting on April 2.
Bramhall said the birth center is licensed in New Hampshire under the Department of Health and Human Services rules known as HE-P 8 10 and that her practice meets both facility licensing and individual licensing requirements. "The name of my birth center is Gentle Landing Birth Center," she said while showing exam and birth rooms and emergency equipment.
The center opened in January 2021, Bramhall said, and she estimated the facility handles about 70 births a year. The facility is a roughly 3,100-square-foot office-park site with two private birth rooms, tubs, ADA-accessible bathrooms and a…
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