One of the biggest opportunities for reducing healthcare costs is improving the quality of maternity care. For most businesses, childbirth and newborn care is the largest or second largest (after heart care) category of hospital expenditures, and it's by far the largest category of hospital expenditures for state Medicaid programs, so even small improvements can result in large savings.

Policymakers can help promote safe, healthy childbirth experiences for women and babies in the United States with wiser use of resources.

A fact sheet from the National Partnership for Women and Families

In the 21st century, it is clear that if the midwifery profession hopes to reach the next generation of childbearing age women, we need to be online to meet them

Childbirth Connection took the lead in engaging multiple stakeholders from across the U.S. healthcare system to design a framework for revamping maternity care in the United States and advancing healthcare reform in this arena.