Our Vision

To provide women and their families a safe and welcoming retreat
that respects spiritual, physical, social, psychological, and economic needs.

BWHC opened in 2004 and is licensed by the Kansas Department of Health & Environment. It was built as a cooperative project by 10 Amish & Mennonite churches in Reno County who act as Board of Directors for this project.

Our center provides an alternative for childbearing families who anticipate a low-risk pregnancy and birth. We believe that childbearing is a normal event, not an illness. Within limits of safety, the entire birth experience can be as individualized as the client desires.

Our birth center and women's health center provide:

• Prenatal care, birthing services, and postpartum care
   

• Childbirth education classes
   

• A homelike quiet rural setting that is ideal for natural childbirth.
   

• Two cheerful private birth rooms each with its own bathroom, including large air jet tubs for labor relaxation.
   

• A cozy kitchen-family room used to prepare meals, relax, and use as the family and the laboring mother choose.
   

• Freedom to labor as the client chooses, with or without medication.
   

• Family centered care with the ability to have the baby with the parents continuously.
   

• Early discharge to home (from 6 to 24 hours postpartum) with two follow-up home visits or phone calls, and 2 week and 6 week office visits.
   

• Women's health care to women of all ages including annual exams and Pap smears, family planning, and gynecological care.