IRC Office Hours - OCTOBER 2023
Preparing for contract negotiations - organize for success!
In October, join Industry Relations Committee members Brianna Bennett and Cynthia Flynn to review essentials steps to prepare for successful contract negotiations. As always, bring your challenges and questions. We will brainstorm solutions together.
AABC membership is required for IRC Office Hours. Registration is free and open to all AABC members.
IRC Leaders
Brianna Bennett, MBA
Brianna is an expert in birth center administration and an experienced nonprofit medical manager. She has served as faculty for AABC for more than 10 years teaching workshops throughout the U.S., consulting with midwives, medical leaders, and entrepreneurs. She understands all facets of financial management, HR, marketing, program development, and business grit. Brianna worked for more than 15 years as the business director of the Women's Birth & Wellness Center in Chapel Hill, NC where she has helped the center grow and expand its services to include more than 7,500 clients. Brianna also helped to kick-start a second birth center in Asheville, NC in 2016.
Cynthia Flynn, PhD, CNM, FACNM
Cynthia has extensive management experience, having served as executive director of The Birth Center, Bryn Mawr, PA; the general director of Family Health and Birth Center, Washington DC, where she negotiated the merger of the birth center with a Federally Qualified Health Center in order to provide stable financing; and founder/owner of Columbia Women’s Clinic and Birth Center, Kennewick, WA. At the national level, she is a past president of the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC), and serves on the AABC Government Affairs and Research Committees as well as the Legislative and Policy Committee of the Midwives Association of Washington State (MAWS). Additionally, she has provided consulting for organizations wishing to start, expand, sustain or replicate midwifery practices and/or birth centers in order to increase access for healthy women to a proven method of obtaining a safe delivery.
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AABC Members can attend IRC Office Hours for free.
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