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Spotlight on Hawthorne Midwives: Tips to mobilize and leverage political support in your region

July 24, 2024

“We just couldn’t afford to hear NO anymore,” says Lynn Hendricks, RM and practice partner of Hawthorne Midwives, on the impetus to develop an advocacy strategy and media campaign to bring attention to their need for increased midwifery staffing and caseload funding. In response to repeated barriers, including denied requests for additional billable courses of care (BCCs) and diminished funding for hiring new registrant midwives, Hawthorne Midwives took a stand, tabling proposals with their transfer payment agency (TPA), local council, and Minister of Health for urgent expansion to meet community demand.

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Midwives should be key collaborators in integrated health systems

By Angela Freeman, RM, MSc Arriving in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the end of April, I had just completed an intensive fellowship as an embedded researcher within an Ontario Health Team (OHT). Steeped for ten months within the regional level of Ontario’s health-care reforms, I was ecstatic to b…

Ontario midwives gather at OMC 2024, Head Midwives Forum and the Midwifery Sustainability Roundtable to vision futures of midwifery

“We cannot leave one midwife behind” – Carol Couchie, IM, NCIM leader, and Indigenous Midwifery Policy Analyst at the AOM Over 200 midwives gathered from across the province last week for the Head Midwives Forum, OMC 2024 and the Midwifery Sustainability Roundtable to discuss, collaborate…

2024 Pride Month: A declaration of collective identity and resilience

Pride Month is a time to recognize and honour the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, celebrating its diversity and advocating for equitable access to health care for all people. Through the month of June, several Pride events and activities are scheduled across the province. This time also calls for acknowledgm…

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