midwifrey
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Midwives provide high quality, cost-effective care to childbearing women throughout their pregnancy, birth, and in the post-partum period. Midwifery care is funded by the province through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. As registered health professionals, midwives are highly trained, appropriate providers of low risk maternity care. They are an accepted and integrated component of our health care and hospital systems. The Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM) recognizes the importance of finding cost-effective ways of providing high quality services for Ontarians. Expanded access to midwifery services is consistent with this objective.
Midwifery became formally recognized as a profession, regulated and funded by the province with the passage of the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) at the end of 1993. Ontario was the first province to integrate midwifery into its health care system. Midwifery is now regulated and funded in British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec as well. Midwifery is also regulated in Alberta, but funding is still under review...