Internships With Family Health and Birth Center
Originally posted on May 10, 2009
It was a lot harder finding a mother related non-profit organization to feature today than I thought it would be, but luckily I came a cross the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, DC. They are "a full scope birth center providing prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to women and their families," and since what they do is all about motherhood, they're a perfect fit for today. The reason that the Family Health and Birth Center exists is that there are often high rates of infant and maternal mortality in low-income areas. That is unacceptable for a country as advanced as the United States, so Ruth Watson Lubic, "an experienced nurse-midwife and health care reform advocate," decided to do something about it. Continue reading about Family Health and Birth Center...
Article by Willy Franzen of One Day, One Internship and One Day, One Job










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