CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Some medical doctors at UVA Health say extra folks from surrounding counties are coming to Charlottesville once they want specialty care.

UVA Health Midwives focuses closely on being pregnant and delivery, and has a workforce that follows the affected person’s care by way of all of it.

In 2022, UVA Health took care of two,284 births. In 2018, it had 1,974 births.

“It’s a real, I think, sense of security for the birthing person to feel as if they have everything they need at their fingertips, even if their plan is a pretty low-tech, low-intervention birth, you know, that they they are looking for the midwives to support them through,” Kate Becker with General Obstetrics and Gynecology mentioned.

UVA Health gives high-risk obstetricians, specialists in maternal fetal drugs, household observe physicians, NICU, and extra.

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