1. The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center a hope for the women of Kentucky

2. The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center It is a non-profit corporation that is required to have a certificate of need. The application fees are based on square-feet of the facility. This application qualified for non-substantive review. A birth center is a maxi-home, not a mini hospital.

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7. 902 KAR 20:150. Alternative birth centers

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14. The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center Family Room

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22. Clinic Services: Antepartum Postpartum Well Woman Well Neonate

23. The Visitation Birth & Family Wellness Center Classes: Lamaze Childbirth Education Breast Feeding Attachment Parenting Cloth diapering Keep nursing while going back to work Postpartum depression support group LaLeche League meetings

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27. Judge J. Phillip Shepherd This court holds that traditional health care providers, by definition, are separate and distinct from ‘alternative birthing centers.’ The long line of cases that holds that state licensees have no right to be free from competition applies here.

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32. Certificate of Need The certificate of need process: – IS onerous and does not allow flexibility to providers. – Does serve as an anti-competition regulation, often violating the Federal Anti-trust laws, – Does not improve healthcare for the Commonwealth

33. Exempt non-profit Alternative Birth Centers from the process of application and review until there is one Alternative Birth Center in each of the 15 area Health Development Districts.