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New Study Shows Midwife-Led Birth Centers Improve Outcomes and Lower Health Care Costs

Research Confirms Low Cesarean Rates and Health Care Costs at Birth Centers, Setting a New Standard of Excellence in Maternity Car

For Immediate Release:

January 31, 2013

SILVER SPRING, MD

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health

The National Birth Center Study II

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health

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[ii] Menacker, Fay. Natl Vital Stat Rep. 2005;54:1-9. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_04.pdf