Two nurse-midwives have returned to obstetrics care at a hospital in Lewiston, Idaho. They had temporarily lost their hospital privileges due to a lack of supporting physicians. N-W-P-B’s Rachel Sun reports.
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Lewis-Clark Valley nurse-midwives Andrea Hedrick and Nicole Jones say they’re once again delivering babies at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston.

The midwives’ hospital privileges at St. Joe’s were restored after two physicians, Dr. Lindsay Kern and Dr. Caroline Rolofson [ROLL-off-son], agreed to take on 24-7 coverage for those deliveries.

Hedrick and Jones have both met with patients to inform them of the change.

Both the midwives and the doctors supporting them are employed at another hospital across the river, TriState Health. But they deliver babies at St. Joe’s because TriState has no birth center.

I’m Rachel Sun, reporting.