Client Experience with the Ontario Birth Center Demonstration Project

INTRODUCTION: In 2014, 2 new freestanding midwifery-led birth centers opened in Ontario, Canada. As one part of a larger mixed-methods evaluation of the first year of operations of the centers, our primary objective was to compare the experiences of women receiving midwifery care who intended to give birth at the new birth centers with those intending to give birth at home or in hospital. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of women …