Birth Centers & Hospital Midwifery Transfer Care

Closing keynote

DATE: Sunday, October 15th
TIME: 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
FACULTY: Karie E. Stewart, MPH, MSN, APN, CNM

Transferring care between birth centers and hospitals is crucial for ensuring optimal outcomes for mothers and infants. When a transfer is necessary from a birth center to a hospital, it is essential to maintain continuity of care and effectively communicate vital information between midwives.

Faculty

Karie E. Stewart, MPH, MSN, APN, CNM
Karie is a practicing Certified Nurse Midwife with the University of Illinois Mile Square Health Centers and the University of Illinois Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She has been a midwife for 6 years and is the current President of the ACNM Illinois Chapter Affiliate. She received her master’s in nursing from the University of Illinois Chicago and her master’s in public health at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
She started a nonprofit organization in 2019 known as Melanated Midwives which aims to financially support BIPOC student midwives through their midwifery training programs with the goal of diversifying the midwifery workforce. Karie is a co-Principal Investigator for MGMC a 7M PCORI-funded project to examine Black Midwives for Black Women: Maternity Care to Improve Trust and Attenuate Structural Racism over the next 4 years, her goal is to highlight the effect that the collective use of evidence-based practices such as racial concordant care, group prenatal care, nurse navigation, and postpartum doulas has on addressing the Black Maternal Health Crisis in Chicago and eventually worldwide.