News & Events

We are thrilled to share that insurance provider Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield and Legacy Health reached an agreement, preventing disruptions in care for WHA patients planning hospital procedures and deliveries. Please visit Regence or Legacy for more information.

Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW) takes place every year during National Minority Health Month. It starts April 11, International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, and continues through April 17. Founded and led by Black Mamas Matter Alliance, BMHW is a campaign to build awareness and activism around racial disparities in maternal health and to…

Women’s Healthcare Associates, LLC (WHA) will cease operations at the Midwifery Birth Center on October 28th, 2022 as part of a larger plan to consolidate its metro area services as a result of declining regional birth rates and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare staffing and expenses. WHA will also withdraw from…

The Eastbank (Emanuel) and Tabor (Providence Portland) offices of Women’s Healthcare Associates begin seeing patients in a new, consolidated location in the Lloyd District on February 23rd. Our address will be: 700 NE Multnomah Street, Suite 1600, Portland, Oregon 97232. Our new office is on both the light rail and streetcar lines with adjacent auto…

Declining birth rates, staffing shortages, rising expenses and widespread health care worker burnout are behind changes recently announced at Women’s Healthcare Associates—one of many health care organizations forced to adapt and evolve amidst lingering effects of the pandemic. “Some of these changes—closing our Happy Valley and Peterkort South clinics—make permanent temporary measures we put into…

Construction update! Due to weather-related delays, the Midwifery Birth Center will now open on February 13th, 2017. We couldn’t be happier to announce the opening of WHA’s Midwifery Birth Center; the first out-of-hospital birth option in Portland integrated within a medical group practice offering the full spectrum of midwifery and OB/GYN care. The Midwifery Birth…

The new Portland option supports natural birth in a home-like setting, integrated with the full spectrum of obstetric care. Midwifery Birth Center, Portland, OregonWomen’s Healthcare Associates (WHA) has welcomed nine new babies into the world at its new Midwifery Birth Center since births began there in April 2017. Led by certified nurse-midwives with structured physician…

In an effort to demonstrate its commitment to quality, excellence and serving the community, Women’s Healthcare Associates (WHA) achieved accreditation for its Midwifery Birth Center on June 9, 2017. To become accredited, WHA’s services, systems and protocols at the birth center were evaluated by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers (CABC), which measures…

In late 2018, WHA had the pleasure of welcoming Catherine Schaefer, CNM, ND, Carissa St. Onge Carneiro, CNM and Rachel Kofron, RN to our Midwifery Birth Center. All three joined the team from A Gentle Beginning, a Portland home-birth midwifery practice Catherine owned and operated since 1994. “I have known for a long time that…