Job Posting: Executive Assistant
Job Posting: Executive Assistant, Our Community Birth Center Updated December 2024 Our Community Birth Center is hiring an Executive Assistant. We are excited to add this new position to our team to provide support to our Executive Director. We are looking for someone who is passionate about nonprofit health care and unwaveringly committed to equity, inclusion, and social justice. The ideal Executive Assistant candidate will have strong skills in human resources, communication, reliability, and organization and project coordination. Our Community Birth Center is a small but dynamic and growing nonprofit healthcare organization. Team members who are ready and willing to
A Note from the Executive Director
Dear Birth Center Clients, Families, and Community, Opening Our Community Birth Center has been everything I dreamed it would be plus so much more. Both the amazing care the birth center provides and the demands on myself as the Executive Director and lead midwife have exceeded my expectations. This fall, I’m making a personal request for your support in donating to help hire an Executive Assistant to assist me with my workload. Midwifing people through losses, gains, challenges and triumphs is a special honor that I relish every day. Our days (and nights!) at the birth center can be long
Job Posting: Part Time, Certified Professional Midwife, Our Community Birth Center
Job Posting: Part Time, Certified Professional Midwife, Our Community Birth Center Updated December 2024 We are looking for a Certified Professional Midwife to join our birth center team. Specifically, we are looking for a midwife who: Wants to live in Eugene/Springfield, Oregon (within a 30 minute drive of Our Community Birth Center). Is eager to work shifts–and not be on call all the time! And is reliably available during their on-call shifts. Is excited to work in a birth center with Certified Nurse Midwives. Wants to work as the second midwife / assisting midwife at births (with potential for future
Remembering Cindy Hunter
We are deeply saddened to share news of the passing of nurse midwife Cindy Hunter on October 25, 2024. Please join us in remembering and honoring her life. She was born on August 20, 1948 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas to Dorothy and Edwin Orloske. In 1966, Cindy graduated from East High School in Wichita. Cindy stayed lifelong friends with several people she knew from high school. Four years later, she completed a bachelor’s degree at Kansas State in English and Biology. After a two-years living in Twentynine Palms, CA near the marine base she and the family
Job Posting: Full Time, Certified Nurse Midwife, Our Community Birth Center
Job Posting: Full Time, Certified Nurse Midwife, Our Community Birth Center Updated October 2024 Are you committed to building relationships with your clients, providing personalized care, and supporting physiologic birth? Would you like to put your skills and expertise to use in an organization committed to equity, inclusion, and social justice? Are you excited by the chance to help grow a nonprofit community-based midwifery birth center and health clinic? If you said “Yes” to any of these questions, we may have the perfect job for you! Our Community Birth Center is a community-focused organization in Springfield/Eugene, Oregon. We provide full
Filled: Job Posting: Bilingual Clinic Assistant, Our Community Birth Center
Updated: This position has been filled. Job Posting: Bilingual Clinic Assistant, Our Community Birth Center Are you committed to building relationships with clients, providing personalized care, and supporting equitable access to health care? Would you like to put your skills and expertise to use in an organization committed to equity, inclusion, and social justice? Are you excited by the chance to help grow a nonprofit community-based midwifery birth center and health clinic? If you said “Yes” to any of these questions, we may have the perfect job for you! Our Community Birth Center is a community-focused organization in Springfield/Eugene, Oregon.
Welcome, Zoe!
Zoe (she/her/hers) is a Certified Nurse Midwife at Our Community Birth Center. Zoe is a graduate of University of Michigan where she studied global health and nursing and University of Illinois at Chicago where she studied midwifery. She relocated to Eugene from the Midwest in 2024 to join the team at Our Community Birth Center. Zoe is excited to work at a birth center that shares her commitment to inclusive, equitable, and accessible midwifery care. She is also a parent of a child born with midwife assistance.
Welcome, Francis!
Francis (they/them) is Our Community Birth Center's new birth assistant/lactation provider. Francis will also host our LGBTQIA+ monthly meet ups for families. Francis has been attending births and supporting families and individuals in their reproductive health journeys for almost 9 years! We are so happy to have them on our team!
NRP Certification Renewed!
This month our midwives and nurses at Our Community Birth Center renewed their Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certification with a special all-day birth center focused training through the American Association of Birth Centers. Our team spent the day practicing skills and techniques to provide fast and effective emergency care to babies with respiratory or cardiac distress. Our Community Birth Center staff participate in a wide range of emergency practice drills throughout the year and maintain Neonatal Resuscitation Program Certification to ensure we are always ready to provide the best care possible if a baby needs extra support after birth.
Baby Clinic
Baby Clinic is every Monday at Our Community Birth Center. Parents and babies are welcome to drop in anytime between 1 pm - 2 pm. This is an opportunity to meet other parents and receive support from your peers and birth center nurses and midwives. You can check your baby's weight, socialize, and ask questions. Baby Clinic is facilitated by our wonderful and very experienced lactation consultant and nurse, Annie Hoag RN IBCLC. You do not have to be a birth center client to participate, anyone is welcome. Join us in person at 188 West B Street, Building O, Springfield,
Postpartum Bonding Session
It was a beautiful day at the birth center. We had the pleasure of facilitating two postpartum bonding sessions in our pool and birth room. Big thank you to @whenabellyblooms and @desirea_still for taking photos of the sessions today. We can't wait to share some of the actual photos when they're ready! Anyone is welcome to book a mini retreat in our pool and birth room. We offer pregnancy and postpartum sessions with options for flowers, herbs, milk, snacks, and more so you can treat yourself. Cost is on a sliding scale so you can pick what works for your
Baby Clinic is Back!
Many of our followers will remember the beloved free weekly drop in Baby Clinic at the former Nurse Midwifery Birth Center. We're excited to share that Our Community Birth Center's new Baby Clinic is here! Pregnant and postpartum parents are invited to join us on Mondays between 1 pm - 2 pm starting 2/28/22 at Our Community Birth Center. This is an opportunity to meet other parents and receive support from your peers and birth center nurses and midwives. You can check your baby's weight, socialize, and ask questions. This is open to all pregnant people and parents of babies.