Atlanta Birth Center

Organizational Background: 

Our mission is to be a sanctuary that nurtures the lives of people and their families by providing a continuum of family-centered, equitable, and holistic care surrounding the childbearing experience. We have a vision of a community where birth is embraced as the most fundamental part of a conscious and connected human experience, where individual voices are heard and medical intervention is a necessary exception, not the norm. Atlanta Birth Center has been a vision shared by local industry professionals based on the birth center model of care with the premise that pregnancy and birth are normal life events and should be person-centered. This model includes prenatal care, mind, body, spirit and social monitoring, postpartum support, and much more. Birth centers offer a model that is different from hospitals and community based, while working with support and collaboration with hospital systems to ensure individuals get the most optimal care. Atlanta Birth Center, along with birth centers across the country, have been successful in outcomes including higher vaginal birth rates and lower cesarean birth rates, lower rates of preterm birth and low birth weight, and less health disparities when compared to city, state, and national standards. We are Atlanta’s only birth center, and we have been nationally accredited by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers since 2017.