Women’s Excellence

Midwifery

Women’s Excellence is a Midwifery practice in Birmingham, MI with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in providing holistic, non-invasive care, education, and emotional support for pregnant women before, during, and after birthing. Midwives at Women’s Excellence perform healthcare services for women throughout pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum adjustment to motherhood. Midwifery is the profession of assisting women in prenatal care, childbirth, and postpartum transition, informed by the belief that pregnancy and childbirth are natural life processes, not medical conditions. Significant diseases and conditions treated at Midwifery practices include vaginal yeast infections, post partum depression, unnecessary technological or pharmaceutical interventions. Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Midwifery practices include pelvic exams, pap smears, breast exams, birth plan creation, parenting education, monitoring and support during labor and childbirth, breastfeeding instruction, newborn care education, and postpartum emotional support.

A Midwife is a trained professional with special expertise in supporting women to maintain a healthy pregnancy birth, offering expert individualized care, education, counseling, and support to a woman and her newborn throughout the childbearing cycle. A Midwife is a skilled and independent practitioner who has undergone formalized training. Midwives are not required to be nurses and may be trained via multiple routes of education (apprenticeship, workshop, formal classes, or programs, etc., usually a combination). The educational background requirements and licensing requirements vary by state. The Midwife may or may not be certified by a state or national organization.

• Aetna [Aetna Life Insurance Company]

• Blue Care Network of Michigan

• Blue Care of Michigan

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Mutual Insurance Company

• Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS)

• Cofinity

• First Health

• Health Alliance Plan (HAP)

• Health Net Life Insurance Company

• HealthPlus of Michigan

• Humana [Humana Insurance Company]

• McLaren Health Plan

• Medicaid

• Medicare

• Meridian Choice [Meridian Health Plan of Michigan, Inc.]

• Michigan Complete Health

• Molina Marketplace [Molina Healthcare of Michigan, Inc.]

• Priority Health

• Railroad Medicare

• Total Health Care USA, Inc.

• TriCare

• UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company