Creating Sustainability in Midwifery through a Clinically Integrated Network

April 15th, 2024

Clinically Integrated Networks are an important piece of creating sustainability for midwives. Midwifery is paramount to solving the maternal health crisis. But in order to leverage the  individualized care and positive outcomes that midwives create, it’s first necessary to build a sustainable work environment for midwives. Support on both a local and legislative level, equitable pay, and recognition for their work are all key ingredients to helping the midwifery workforce to grow and thrive. Clinically Integrated Networks are a model of collaboration that midwives can use to achieve all these things. The network model allows them to maintain their independence as providers while using their collective power to negotiate rates with payers, among other things.

Quilted Health is building the first Clinically Integrated Network for Independent Midwives in the nation. NACPM’s guest speakers will share more about how the Clinically Integrated Network model works and how they’ve started to implement it at Quilted Health. They’ll cover why a Clinically Integrated Network is a good model for independent midwives, how it can improve the experience for both midwives and birthing people, and how a network can help bolster the national support for and recognition of midwives to achieve even greater outcomes.