the visitation birth & family wellness center a hope for the women of kentucky

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Centera hope for the women of Kentucky

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

• It is a non-profit corporation that is required to have a certificate of need.

• The application fees are based on square-feet of the facility.

• This application qualified for non-substantive review.

• A birth center is a maxi-home, not a mini hospital.

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

902 KAR 20:150. Alternative birth centers

902 KAR 20:150. Alternative birth centers

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness CenterFamily Room

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The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

Clinic Services:

Antepartum

Postpartum

Well Woman

Well Neonate

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

Classes:

Lamaze Childbirth Education

Breast Feeding

Attachment Parenting

Cloth diapering

Keep nursing while going back to work

Postpartum depression support group

LaLeche League meetings

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The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

Judge J. Phillip Shepherd

• This court holds that traditional health care providers, by definition, are separate and distinct from ‘alternative birthing centers.’

• The long line of cases that holds that state licensees have no right to be free from competition applies here.

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center

Certificate of Need

• The certificate of need process:– IS onerous and does not allow flexibility to

providers.– Does serve as an anti-competition regulation,

often violating the Federal Anti-trust laws,– Does not improve healthcare for the

Commonwealth

Exempt non-profit Alternative Birth Centers from the process of application and review until there is one Alternative

Birth Center in each of the 15 area Health Development Districts.