Healthcare Change Makers

Today, your host Ellen Gardner, Communications and Marketing at HIROC, speaks with Elizabeth Brandeis, President of the Board of the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM).   For Elizabeth, the road to becoming a midwife started with her own personal experience with midwifery care, during the birth of her daughter 25 years ago. Now, on the 25th anniversary of regulated midwifery in Ontario, she looks back on where we’ve been and where we are headed.   Elizabeth speaks to the long history of midwifery in Ontario. As President of the Board of the AOM, she shares her view on the critical role the AOM has played in developing a model of care that promotes partnership and informed choice.   Key Takeaways: [1:18] The unique history of midwifery in Ontario [2:27] The resurgence of Indigenous midwifery in Ontario [3:21] Funding for Indigenous midwives within the Ontario midwifery program [4:29] Elizabeth’s own experience with midwifery care and her exposure to the model and the issues that the newly-regulated professi