Being an entrepreneur is something midwives are not trained to be. We are trained to care for women and babies, understand normal birth, and prepare for emergency situations. Our scope is low-risk, healthy women. To be a business owner is either learning by mistake or taking the initiative to take additional classes or read books …
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Keeping Statistics for your Midwife Business. Being a midwife of a successful practice is hard work. There is so much time spent taking phone calls, seeing patients, processing insurance claims, marketing your brand, creating policies, and employee meetings. Last thing midwives think about are data collection. Taking the time to look through charts and collect …
There are many great ways to market your midwifery business. Spend some time learning about your options. Some costs money, some are just time consuming. If you are starting out your practice or wanting to take it to the next level, I strongly encourage you to look into Facebook marketing. You can have a page dedicated to …
Are you going through life trying to avoid mistakes and limit change? Are you a person that welcomes opportunities for challenge and embraces failure? Success is not made from doing everything right all the time. Being someone great takes failing many times before getting it right. Why has our society trained us to think that …
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Midwives always talk about challenges of independent midwifery businesses getting hospital privileges. If you work for a doctor’s office or hospital directly, it is relatively easy getting privileges. There is lots of paperwork involved, but privileges happens in 1-2 months. For a midwife wanting to deliver in the hospital running her own practice, it is …
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There are many ways to create a fee schedule. Simple way is do a cash rate fee schedule based on your overhead expenses, how many women you are seeing each month, and goal for profit margin. For example, monthly business expenses including building, utilities, malpractice insurance, office supplies, birth supplies, birth assistant, staff wages, and …
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Creating a women’s health clinic as a midwife can have its challenges. Do you love serving women, but can’t stand being up all night for a birth anymore? “With women” means any aspect of a women’s life. It isn’t just for pregnancy adn birth. So many women are having the trouble of finding a good women’s …
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One of the hardest things running your own midwifery practice is separating work and personal life. If you work for a hospital, you turn your pager off and clock out. When a midwife decide to start her own private practice, everything is ultimately her responsibility. Even if you hire many midwives to do birth call and take care …
Whether it is Yelp, Google, Facebook, or your website’s direct testimonials, reviews can be help or hurt your midwifery business. Referrals and recommendations is the greatest free advertising you can have. Encourage women and their families (husbands, parents, and siblings) to put feedback in writing to use for marketing material. Have them spout your praises on …
You’ve gone through the initial phone interview with the recruiter, spent 30-60 minutes with the Director of Nursing, and completed the on-site interview with the administration team. Midwifery employment contract is presented to you in writing; what do you do next? Do you accept, reject, or counter-offer? I hope every midwife is negotiating and not …
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