CHILD BIRTH

Child birth at home with a midwife

Child birth at home with a midwife

Introduction

The Birthing Center has been a great introduction into the healthcare field. Creating the birthing center opened many doors for families who wanted a monitored environment with a home like atmospheres. This form of care was created to offer a savings in cost and provide a viable alternative to hospital care. Some communities are too small to support a hospital obstetrical unit. Because they are small and generally non-bureaucratic, they may overcome social and emotional barriers that contribute to the poor use of facilities by some groups of women. In this essay I will give an analysis of what is the role of caregivers and of the different types of birthing centers that provide prenatal care to women.

Managing Care Resources Contributions

Birth centers offer business and industry direct savings in the cost of health benefits. If only 100,000 births were attended in birth centers, annual savings could be almost $ 314 million. (www.birthingfreedom.com) It is also provides a staring base for the wellness and prevention programs being established to reduce the cost of health care. The nine month intensive focus on improving family health by promotion of lifestyle changes in pregnancy can have a significant ripple effect in the long term improvement in family health.

Birth centers have had a major impact on changing the acute care maternity services provided by hospitals. They are showing that the majority of women can safely proceed through pregnancy and birth using acute care services only as needed. In a wellness orientation to pregnancy and birth, birth centers would be the managed care gate keepers for the acute obstetric newborn services. Most major health insurers have a reimburse contract with birth centers. Charges reflect cost and the birth center is a ...