As part of the National Midwifery Week Celebration at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Holly P. Kennedy, CNM, FACM, the president of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), returns to her Rhode Island roots to present a "With Women for A Lifetime" commendation to the Women's Care Nurse-Midwives.
This national award recognizes nurse-midwifery practices that have provided innovative and compassionate midwifery care to families through expanded access, unique programs, and an ongoing commitment to nurse-midwifery education.
Along with this award presentation, scheduled for October 5, Dr. Kennedy will also give a breakfast talk from 7:30 to 9 am, in the hospital's South Pavilion entitled, "The Evidence for Preserving and Promoting Normal Physiologic Birth."
Dr. Kennedy is well known to the Rhode Island obstetric and midwifery community, having previously been a part of the academic nurse-midwifery service at Women & Infants. She was also a former director of the University of Rhode Island nurse Nurse-Midwifery program and now serves as the Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery at the Yale School of Nursing.
Professional education credits are being given for the event, which is sponsored in part by the Rhode Island affiliate of the ACNM. For more information, email Lara Laskowski at llaskowski@wihri.org.
About Women & Infants Hospital
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation's leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A U.S. News Best Hospital in Gynecology and Best Children's Hospital in Neonatology, Women & Infants was ranked number one in the Providence metro area and a top hospital in Cancer and Gynecology. The primary teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women's medicine, Women & Infants is the seventh largest obstetrical service in the country with more than 8,500 deliveries per year. In 2009, Women & Infants opened the country's largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.
New England's premier hospital for women and newborns, Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation's only mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation's only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.
Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Center of Excellence from the American College of Radiography; a Center for In Vitro Maturation Excellence by SAGE In Vitro Fertilization; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health; a Center of Excellence for Reproductive Resource Services; and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute's Gynecologic Oncology Group.