After launch two years ago, UTHSC expanding its nurse-midwife program
Certified nurse midwife Kate Fouquier measures the progress of a patient who is 22-weeks pregnant at a Regional One Health primary care facility in Memphis, Tennessee July 12, 2022. UTHSC is working to increase the number of nurse midwives in the Delta region, where maternal mortality rates are high and maternity care is scarce. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The nurse-midwifery program will graduate its first cohort of students in May 2024.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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