The real midwives of Glenwood Springs

Lindsey Bischoff believes she was born to be a midwife.
Bischoff traveled the world as a labor and delivery nurse for nearly two decades before landing at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs, where the women’s health unit is primarily staffed by certified nurse midwives.
“I probably worked in 20 other hospitals, and this is one of the first hospitals that has an abundance of midwives,” said Bischoff, who is a certified nurse midwife.
More than half of the rural hospitals across the country don’t have a labor and delivery unit because of how expensive they are to run since they need to be staffed 24/7.
“We could not afford to provide the level of service that we do if we had a more traditional physician-based model,” said Shannon Dilley, director of the women’s health clinic at Valley View Hospital. “It allows us to maintain a lower cost of care model and provide a lot more care to our lower income patients.”
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