Senate passes bill giving pregnant women more birthing options. Pregnant women in Kentucky may soon have another option when it comes to labor and delivery: free-standing birthing centers. Northern ...

The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem. The trend has been associated with a significant increase in serious maternal ...

Bills to exempt free-standing birth centers from Kentucky's certificate-of-need law have cleared committees in the House and Senare and are poised for floor votes, despite opposition from the chair of ...

Kentucky passed House Bill 90 to reduce barriers for establishing freestanding birthing centers, which have been absent in the state since the 1980s. The new law removes the certificate of need ...