Something about what beso is to the three birth centers

Colorado Springs

A Mother’s Choice Midwifery (AMC) provides open access, midwife-led perinatal health care in El Paso County, one of Colorado's most populous counties. Owned and operated by a Black Certified Professional Midwife (soon to be CNM), and fiscally sponsored by Elephant Circle, this is the only Black Owned Open Access clinic in Colorado and the only Perinatal Safe Spot in Colorado. The Birth Center opens in 2024.

Denver Metro Area

Seasons provides care in the north Denver metro area. Between 04/2019 – 11/2022 it operated as Seasons Midwifery and Birth Center (SMBC), under venture-capital backed ownership. During that time, 697 babies were born there. The community rallied to save the center from closure and reopened as the non-profit Seasons Community Birth Center, fiscally sponsored by Elephant Circle, in January 2023. The center is on track to see 20 births per month by the end of the year.

Pueblo

Pueblo in the largest city in the Southern third of the state. It has twice as many Indigenous and Hispanic people as the state average. It is served by only one labor and delivery hospital unit, down from two, despite population growth and forecasted growth. It is surrounded on three sides with counties that have no hospital or birth center.