Women's Health Associates, LLC

10/10/2025

Though some faces may change, the vision and discipline of midwifery practice will always be the foundation and inspiration for . Thank you for this recognition!

2024 Triple Aim Best Practices Recognition

The 2024 Triple Aim Best Practice designation highlights exceptional performance among maternity care practices participating in the ACNM Benchmarking Project. This recognition reflects alignment with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “Triple Aim” framework: improving the patient experience, enhancing population health, and reducing the cost of care.

To qualify for this designation, practices met or exceeded the following key performance benchmarks:
- Primary Cesarean Birth Rate: Below 23.9%
- Preterm Birth Rate: Below 11.4%
- Exclusive Breastfeeding in the First 48 Hours: Above 81%
- Reporting of Fiscal Outcomes: Required for full participation

Out of 181 participating practices in 2024, 40 were recognized as Triple Aim Best Practices, demonstrating a strong commitment to clinical excellence, patient-centered care, and sustainable outcomes.

10/08/2025

National Midwifery Week takes place annually during the first full week of October, and was created by to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care.

This week at WHA Midwives, we’re celebrating the strength, compassion, and teamwork that define our profession — and the wonderful people who make this care possible.

This season, we’re excited to welcome a few experienced and beloved colleagues to our team, so that we may continue to care for you as we care for ourselves. They are not only seasoned providers, but also nursing and midwifery faculty, as well as longtime friends.

Together, our team is well equipped to continue providing relationship-based, thoughtful, and deeply personal care — all while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

We look forward to introducing you to these wonderful humans!

Here’s to midwives caring for families — and for each other. 💜

Happy Midwifery Week!

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09/24/2025

As the definitive resource for menopause and other midlife healthcare issues, developed a competency examination in 2002 to set the standards for menopause practice and assist patients in locating clinicians who could provide optimal menopause-related healthcare. Those who pass the examination earn the credential The Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP). 

Congratulations to WHA’s own Laura Sundstrom, CNM, FACNM and now MSCP(!) on earning this credential.

In addition to Laura, there are many providers ready and willing to talk all things and with you! Thank you, as always, for choosing us for your care. 💜

08/28/2025

WHA Midwives is thrilled to welcome Sarah-Grace Sweeney to the team starting in September! Sarah-Grace is a student nurse midwife at the Yale School of Nursing and will be completing her final year of clinical training with us at WHA starting next month. You can expect to see her in the office and on the labor floor. We are looking forward to having her with us and she is looking forward to meeting all of you!

07/31/2025

Welcome to the WHA family, Savannah! We are so happy to meet you! 💜

06/14/2025

May we all live authentically and without fear. Happy Pride to our LGBTQIA+ community from !!! 💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖

05/10/2025

We couldn’t let this week go by without wishing a HAPPY NURSES WEEK to our incredible, invaluable, incomparable WHA nurses. Steph, Steph, and Drea - you are so essential to our team and we are so grateful for all that you do. 💜

And to our amazing nurse collaborators on the labor and delivery floor - we could not do this work without you. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Happy Nurses Week to all from !

03/28/2025

Please join us in welcoming Loren Fields, DNP, APRN and Allison LaCross, DNP, CNM to the provider team at WHA Midwives! We are so excited to have Loren joining our team and thrilled to have Allie back!

Loren will be seeing patients for GYN care on Tuesday afternoons in our New Haven office and Allie will be returning to the labor floor one day a week, usually on Mondays.

They can’t wait to meet you and we can’t wait for you to meet them!

02/08/2025

This past December marked 20 (!) years of WHA Midwives. Founded in 2024, by Linda Lisk and the late Debbie Cibelli, WHA became one of the only independent, midwifery-owned private practices in the state. When we opened in 2004, WHA grew entirely by word of mouth. Patients and families gave us their trust, and the practice flourished. We have followed patients from their teenage years, through childbearing, and into menopause. We have had the joy of caring for generations of the same families, delivering the babies of babies we delivered! 

Today, February 7th, marks the 8th year anniversary of Debbie’s passing. Though she is no longer with us, her vision and discipline of midwifery practice will always be the foundation and inspiration for WHA Midwives. As we look to the future, we carry Debbie’s spirit with us every step of the way. 

To our patients, our families, our staff, the entire labor and birth floor, our physician colleagues, our community partners, our beloved WHA Alumni, and especially to Debbie, THANK YOU. We are so grateful, honored and humbled to get to do the work we love to do, caring for others the way we would want to be care for ourselves. 💜

10/10/2024

Happy National MIdwifery Week 2024 from us at WHA Midwives!

The American College of Nurse Midwives has named this year’s theme: “Midwives Looking to the Future.” Rigorous scientific evidence demonstrates that care provided by midwives improves birth outcomes and patient experiences. The evidence also supports the importance of the integration and expansion of midwifery to the improvement of health outcomes across states and nations. The profession of midwifery is rooted in the past but essential to the future.

We at WHA are happy to part of your past, present and future!

06/30/2024

While Pride Month may be coming to a close, our support of and care for the 🌈 community is enduring. May all people have access to safe and inclusive reproductive health care.

02/10/2024

Join us tomorrow morning at the 2024 Run for Refugees! We’re proud to help sponsor again this year in support of the amazing work done by IRIS - Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services!

Do we have the best sponsors for Run For Refugees 2024or what?! A huge THANKS to these groups & businesses for showing solidarity with our refugee neighbors! Please give them a Like and join us all tomorrow! https://bit.ly/39fwIa6

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