Virtua Health is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Midwifery Birth and Wellness Center, in Voorhees—the first and only freestanding birth center of its kind in Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties. Located near Virtua Voorhees Hospital, the family focused birth center offers home-like labor and delivery suites supporting the birthing option of one’s choice including water births.  

The midwifery model of care is based on the philosophy that birth is a natural part of life, rather than a condition to be treated. The approach is holistic, wellness-based and patient- and family-centered. Physiologic labor and birth—often called natural labor and birth—is an option for women at low risk for pregnancy complications. It emphasizes a supported birthing process with less-invasive monitoring.   

Facilitated by a certified nurse midwife, a licensed provider trained in nursing and midwifery, physiologic birth allows women to give birth spontaneously without an epidural or other obstetric intervention, unless medically necessary.  

Location: 165 Rte. 73. For more information, visit www.Virtua.org/wedeliver.