Access to Legal Aid is a Social Determinant of Health: Midwives Call on Funding to be Reinstated
Date: July 22, 2019
The provincial government cut an unprecedented 30% from the Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) budget this year, with an additional 35% cut planned for 2020. Midwives are deeply concerned and have joined with other health care providers to write a letter calling on the federal and provincial governmen…
Midwifery Investment an Important Step in Health-care Reform
Date: July 8, 2019
St Jacobs, ON – Today, Minister of Health Christine Elliott announced that the Ontario government will invest in improving access to midwifery care. The announcement includes additional funding to invest in the growth of midwifery. With this funding, midwives will be able to provide care for …
Victory for reproductive rights at the Ontario Court of Appeal
Date: May 21, 2019
On May 15, 2019, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), to uphold a decision made against the Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada, The Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians’ Societies, and Canadian Physicians for Life…
AOM celebrates the successes of Primary Health Care Collaboration
Date: April 8, 2019
As Ontario moves towards some significant changes in structuring of primary health care through formation of health teams, the AOM revisits a success story that shines light on how to realize this monumental task successfully. With a system that manages to provide excellent services to clients t…
AOM Statement on Government Decision to Terminate Funding to the College of Midwives of Ontario (CMO)
Date: December 14, 2018
The AOM is deeply disappointed by the Ministry of Health's decision to terminate funding to the CMO. As the CMO confirmed this morning in their notice to midwives, this loss of government funding will place an additional burden on midwives who must now support the work of the CMO throu…
McMaster initiative funded to improve reproductive outcomes in Pakistan
Date: June 20, 2018
McMaster researchers Drs. Eileen Hutton and Karyn Kaufman have joined forces with midwife Dr. Rafat Jan and researchers at the National University of Medical Science to develop an interactive ebook and training module with high-quality current information on family planning, safe abortion, and post…
Congratulations from CAPWHN
Date: May 5, 2018
To all our midwifery colleagues, The Board of Directors and Members of the Canadian Association of Perinatal and Women’s Health Nurses (CAPWHN) would like to extend congratulations to our midwifery colleagues on May 5, 2018, International Day of the Midwife #IDM2018. Midwives and Nu…
2018 Grant Recipients
Date: March 13, 2018
Career Midwifery Research Grant recipients
Nicole Bennett
RM, PhD candidate
Nicole Bennett is the director of Ryerson University's Midwifery Education Program. Bennett and her team seek to understand how access to midwifery care in Ontario can be optimized for people with d…
Home Birth: It's Safe. And it's a Choice You Have.
Date: March 5, 2018
Today, the Association of Ontario Midwives launches a new campaign to promote midwifery-attended home birth as a birth place option for Ontario families. The campaign, using a mix of radio and digital ads, aims to raise awareness and education about home birth, especially for those who may have nev…
Beloved Ottawa Midwife Retires
Date: February 20, 2018
Teresa Bandrowska, known as one of the original 60 "Michener midwives," recently celebrated her retirement from clinical practice. Long-time colleague Bobbi Soderstrom writes of the celebration, "It was a very sweet event with the group singing a song to her and presenting her with an absolutely be…