With women, for a lifetimeTM Commendation
Gunderson Luthern Medical Center (LaCrosse, WI)
The Nurse-Midwifery Service at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center is one of the longest continuous running services in the State of Wisconsin and in the United States established in October 1975.
All Certified Nurse-Midwives in the service are members of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
The Nurse-Midwifery Service has always been a leader in innovative programs. The midwives led the way establishing birthing rooms in 1978, allowing mothers in labor to give birth and recover in the same room. They have continued to offer innovations including an in-hospital, home-like birth center, water birth and Centering Pregnancy.
The midwives work in partnership with the Gundersen Lutheran Adolescent Pregnancy Program to provide full scope midwifery care to a vulnerable population.
For many years, the midwives in this service have been preceptors for such education programs as Columbia, CNEP, Marquette University, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois-Chicago and Vanderbilt. The midwives are experienced preceptors with a great interest in student education and excellence in practice. They have provided this service to education programs for over 25 years.
The midwives at Gundersen Lutheran are encouraged to develop their own area od expertise, such as: sexuality counselor certification, international health partnerships, alternative and complementary health care. In each and every aspect of the service, the midwives give of themselves with heart, soul, and mind.
