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About Deborah Frank, CNM
Deborah Frank is a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) with over twenty five years of experience caring for childbearing families. She completed her nursing degree at Duke University and then attended Yale University where she received her Masters Degree in Nurse-Midwifery. She is Board Certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. She chose midwifery as her professional path because it combines the long tradition and history of midwives caring for women with the use of advances and techniques in modern medicine.
As a midwife, Deborah has attended births in a variety of settings including home, out of hospital birth center, a small community hospital and a large tertiary care center. After graduating from Yale, she attended home births in Los Angeles for over ten years. Her practice attended over 1,000 home births with a Cesarean birth rate of less than 3% and an excellent record of safe and satisfying care for women choosing this option. She was then associated with the UC Irvine out of hospital birth center for three years. In this beautiful birth center women had the opportunity to labor in jacuzzi tubs and give birth with a qualified staff of certified nurse-midwives. In 1996, she founded The Women’s Place for Health and Midwifery Care which was the first midwifery practice to have delivery privileges at Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo, California. Since 2003, she has established a midwifery practice with an office in Beverly Hills and birthing privileges at UCLA Westwood Hospital. Her practice provides personalized women’s health services and birth care for families wishing to give birth in a hospital setting that respects the role of midwives in the birth process, and the significance of birth as a sacred family event.
Posts by Deborah Frank
I am one of the many who experienced a c-section against my expressed wishes…
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted by Deborah Frank, CNM in Midwife Q & A ⋅ Comments »
Q: I am one of the many who experienced a c-section against my expressed wishes. I also had a midwife. I was told after 12 hours of labor (pit and ... Continue reading this post...I am a diabetic and I was wondering if you would recommend a homebirth or even a Midwife in a hospital?
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted by Deborah Frank, CNM in Midwife Q & A ⋅ Comments »
Q: I am a diabetic and I was wondering if you would recommend a homebirth or even a Midwife in a hospital? A: It is not clear from your question what ... Continue reading this post...