LCBCS Office Hours: In-Person at the Birth Institute

Join us for a special in-person office hours session of the Learning Collaborative for Birth Center Sustainability at the AABC Birth Institute! This Q&A session is open to all previous attendees of the Learning Collaborative for Birth Center Sustainability (LCBCS) class. Check in with faculty and other workshop participants and bring your challenges and successes to this interactive session. 

Registration is free and open to all who have attended a Learning Collaborative for Birth Center Sustainability class.

Date & Time: Thursday, September 11, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT

Location: Hilton Portland Downtown, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204 

LCBCS Leaders

Erica Biesinger, MBA

Erica has been involved in the birth center community since 2014 when she joined the staff at The Midwife Center in Pittsburgh as the Finance and Operations Manager.  Since then, she's provided ongoing administrative support to the birth center including overseeing all financial aspects of the Center and helping to expand  both the facility and programs offered.  She is passionate about the independent, free-standing birth center model and the midwifery model of care. Her goal is to have that shine through in her administrative work, while improving the ongoing financial health of the birth center.

Jillian Helleloid, MBA

Jillian has been working in the medical billing and coding field with freestanding birth centers since 2017. In 2025 Jillian opened her own consulting business, Bloom Birth Center Consulting, to assist midwives and birth centers with everything from contracting & billing to administrative support.

In addition to her professional experience, Jillian is a member of the IRC committee and currently serves as the treasurer of the Minnesota Chapter of AABC where she has been actively involved in advancing legislative changes to support birth centers in Minnesota.