Curbside Consulting/Office Hours with Emily Hayes

Emily has been working in women’s services since 2000 at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. Currently she is a Director of Nursing with responsibilities for maternity services including the Level III Labor and Delivery unit and NICU, Alongside Midwifery Unit (Family Beginnings Birth Center), Postpartum unit, Antepartum/Perinatal Intensive Care unit, Lactation, and Maternal Fetal Medicine. Prior to this transition she held the Nurse Manager role for Labor and Delivery as well as the AMU for 8 years. She also has served as a board member for the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers since 2018 and currently holds the Vice Chair role as well as the Chair for the AMU Committee. It is her passion to help advocate for options in maternity services by sharing the history of Family Beginnings (established in 1995 and accredited since 2004) and supporting others through their process of starting a similar program to expand access to the midwifery model of care.