The American Association of Birth Centers: history, membership, and current initiatives

Julia C Phillippi¹, Jill Alliman¹, Kate Bauer¹

• ¹Julia C. Phillippi, CNM, MSN, is a lecturer at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, TN, and a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. She practices on a locum tenens basis with the Women's Wellness & Maternity Center and Lisa Ross Birth & Women's Center in Knoxville, TN.Jill Alliman, CNM, MSN, is the Center Director for Women's Wellness & Maternity Center, an accredited nonprofit birth center in Madisonville, TN, where she has provided full scope care for more than 22 years. She is Chair of the Legislative Committee and former President of the American Association of Birth Centers.Kate Bauer, MBA, is the Executive Director of the American Association of Birth Centers, located in Perkiomenville, PA, and the Project Administrator of the AABC Uniform Data Set.