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NEWS FROM MaMA Summer, 2004
Editor’s note: This is the first of what we hope will be seasonal updates of practice and personal news.
We welcome comments and questions at info@mamah.org.
NEW SITES, NEW AFFILIATIONS
The past year has been an exciting one of growth and change for MaMA.
In the fall of 2003, we inaugurated an affiliation with MIT Medical, bringing midwifery services to the MIT community for the first time in many years. Now, MIT students, staff and spouses who subscribe to the MIT Medical health plan can see a MaMA midwife at the campus facility or the MaMA office of their choice. Births take place at Mt. Auburn Hospital.
Our office in Arlington at 22 Mill St. moved from Suite 208 downstairs to the newly renovated Suite 102 on November 1, 2003. The new space is tranquil and cheerful. MaMA midwives Megan MacInnes and Deb Gowen are there to see to clients’ needs. Watch for the return of midwife and practice director, Phyllis Gorman, sometime in the fall!
Mount Auburn’s office on Bedford St. in Lexington welcomed midwife Robyn Churchill last fall as well. Robyn is there 2 days a week seeing both OB and GYN clients.
Looking ahead, we anticipate a September 2004 opening of the new Waltham branch of the Joseph M. Smith Community Health Center. MaMA midwives will continue to see clients at the Allston location. The new office will make life easier for the many JMS midwifery clients who live in Waltham and the MetroWest area. Read more about the plans for Waltham below.
A NEW COLLEAGUE
While we were sorry to say “goodbye” to Mary Baker, CNM, when she left MaMA for Harvard Vanguard in February, we were very fortunate to recruit Mary Culliton, CNM, to take her place. It seems we are destined to have a midwife named Mary among us at all times! Mary C. is a 2001 graduate of Yale University’s midwifery program. Before coming to MaMA, she worked at Boston Medical Center. Now that she’s fully credentialed, she is taking call for births, and seeing clients at the Center for Women, MIT, and Hope Ave. - Waltham offices.
A NEW MIDWIFE
Over the past year, many of you got to know Julie Mann, who was finishing her midwifery studies at Yale University with MaMA’s guidance. We are thrilled to report that she graduated in May and took her national certifying examination in June. We will welcome her to our per diem staff after she completes the hospital credentialing process. In the meantime she has joined the staff of Partners in Health, a project of Harvard Medical School that brings health care to underserved communities in developing countries.
Congratulations, Julie!
A NEW GRANDMA
Wearing an especially broad smile lately is Marcia Snyder, who became a grandmother for the first time on April 12, 2004, when her daughter Rachael gave birth to Gavin Matthew. Marcia flies off to visit them in Chicago every chance she gets these days. Sometimes we wonder whether she will come back…
A NEW GRANT PROGRAM TO START AT JOSEPH SMITH WALTHAM
Robyn recently co-authored a grant to support a training program for bilingual women to become both medical interpreters and doulas, skills for which there is a great need in the Latino community. The grant application was successful, and community women are now being recruited for the first class. This grant will also fund a Centering Pregnancy model of prenatal care, which Robyn will conduct in Spanish at the new Joseph Smith Waltham office.