Salma In The News “Our Union Grows in NEPA! Geisinger Nurse Midwives Join PASNAP!”The certified nurse midwives that deliver newborns at Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa. have won union recognition and are our newest PASNAP union sisters! PASNAP welcomes and honors all nurse midwife members during National Midwifery Week, October 4th -10th. The five certified nurse midwives at Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton have won union recognition and are preparing to negotiate their first contract, according to a release from Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals.The GCMC Childbirth Center opened last October and the midwives, who perform virtually every delivery that does not require surgery, were granted union status by the National Labor Relations Board on Sept. 11. Geisinger officials say this childbirth center is midwife-driven, what's called a low-risk model, meaning only babies who will be delivered at 35 weeks of gestational age or above can be born here. It's similar to the model that currently exists at Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital."Most everyone will start in that category. As a pregnancy progresses, there might be something that pops up that requires them to deliver in Wilkes-Barre instead," said certified nurse-midwife Heather Mecone.
