• Childbirth Connections announces Maternity Quality Matters award--applications due January 16.

• Note: proposals for the RWJF New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program are due January 21.

• New research available on improving maternity care: Evidence-Based Maternity Care: What It Is and What It Can Achieve reviews the US maternity care system and identifies specific strategies for improvement. A recent Cochrane Review concludes that all women should be offered midwife-led models of care.

• Payers and Policymakers:  Learn more about Home Birth

• Mothers: Take The Birth Survey, an online resource from the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services.
  
  
• CBS Evening News Spotlights Midwifery Practice
  Macarthur award winner Ruth Lubic, CNM, founder of the DC Family Health and Birth Center talks about her birth center. Also read about other midwives in the news.

• ACNM Presents Free CEU Program for Nurses on performing sterile speculum examinations.
  
  

• Learn all about midwifery care in the United States

• National Business Group on Health's Investing in Maternal and Child Health recommends health plans develop CNM-friendly benefits to improve quality of care.

• Speak Out for Midwifery!
  Support efforts to improve Medicare access to midwifery services.

• Register NOW for ACNM Home Based Life Saving Skills-2009 Workshop.

• Read ACNM's letter to President-elect Obama, our 2009 federal policy agenda and five easy steps YOU can take to impact health care reform.

• ACNM partners with other nursing groups to request $200M in funding for nursing and midwifery education.

• Senior management team is ready for action in '09; includes new Professional Practice & Health Policy Director Tina Johnson, CNM, MS

• The ACNM Board has elected Dawn Durain as VP and appointed Suzanne M. Smith as Region II Representative

• ACNM announces with regret the resignation of President Kitty Ernst. She is succeeded by Vice President Melissa Avery. Read letters from Ernst, Avery, and the Board of Directors.

• Click here for information on submitting research abstracts for consideration for the ACNM 54th Annual Meeting.

• Donate to the A.C.N.M. Foundation   before year-end!  Click here to learn about supporting the Foundation, or click here to visit the donation page.

• New ACNM Position Statements on Premature Rupture of Membranes

• Download our revised ACNM Code of Ethics and Code of Ethics with Explanatory Statements
  

• Staff and volunteers attend many meetings and conferences on behalf of members. Check out ACNM Representing You!
  

News Releases

• ACNM Announces New Senior Management Team (December 24)

• ACNM Sets Aggressive Federal Policy Agenda (December 22)

• ACNM Welcomes Tina Johnson, CNM, MS, as Director of Professional Practice and Health Policy (December 18)

• ACNM Hires New Communications Manager Yolanda Landon (December 16)

• ACNM Announces New Vice President and Region II Representative (December 9)

• Eunice K.M. "Kitty" Ernst Resigns from ACNM Presidency; Vice President Melissa Avery Takes the Helm (November 20, 2008)