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What are your rights as consumer of your own healthcare?
  1. Legal rights. Click Here to go to ICAN
  2. The right to choose your care provider and your place of birth, whether it is in the hospital, a free standing birth center or in your own home
  3. Ten questions to Ask your care-provider, The Birth Survey, and excellent birth fact sheets www.motherfriendly.org
  4.  Rights of childbearing women www.childbirthconnection.org
  5. Medical decisions made based on the best interests of the mother and baby and in line with scientific evidence. Visit our Evidence-Based Care section on our web site for more information.

 

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Download the following pdf files

Consumer Resignation Letter

4 Certified Nurse-Midwives Letter

Skyline Perinatal

VACNM Letter

Skyline Perinatal Response

Sara Fariss Krivanec, ICAN Leader

Safety of Homebirth

CIMS Cesarean Fact Sheet

National Association of Certified Professional Midwives - Credentials

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