i was looking around eugene for the best place for my husband and i to have our baby and i'm so…read morehappy we found the nurse midwifery birth center. this is an excellent freestanding birth center. it is affiliated with the hospital but the midwives who work here believe in and support natural childbirth. they are highly trained and very warm and welcoming. if any complications arise during childbirth, they are able to transport a woman to the hospital but since they only work with low-risk women here, it is rarely necessary. it is the only birth center in oregon certified by the american association of birth centers. what i like most about this birth center is their philosophy that it is the woman herself who births her baby and that they support women and their right to dignity and respect during childbirth.

Glucose testing is required to give birth at the Center, which I understand and agreed 100% to…read more What I did not agree to was to be repeatedly told to choose and consume one of the the "only" two toxic options that are "available". It is NOT the midwives decision themselves that Peace Health chooses to work with a lab company with no real options. But is is immensely disrespectful when in response to telling multiple Midwives of my legitimate allergies, to be told "Here, drink this anyways!" So hospital birth it is. Thanks to there being no freestanding (free from toxic corporate decisions) birth centers in the area, and thanks to the fact that it is not a financial option for me to hire an independent midwife. Last I checked, fruits & honey are pretty high in glucose. Can't we work with a lab that can standardize REAL sugar? Let me know of options that I don't have to be forced to compromise my well-being for. (Also, be aware that you never know which midwife you are going to get. There are no guarantees. I was so happy to go with Colleen Forbes, LDM/Home Midwifery Care and her assistant Victoria. If you have any doubts with Peace Health, I wholeheartedly recommend Colleen. She stays with you the entire process, day & night -prenatal, and 6 weeks postpartum! The best decision I've ever made.)

me and my wife have been coming here for our baby's ultrasounds, they are supposed to be happy…read morememories right!, there's a few techs that don't do there job right, really rude not only to us but out 1 almost 2 year old son, we got sent over to the Emergency Room because the ultrasound techs here dont have the training they need to have, and saying our baby was 2 pounds smaller then what the emergency rooms ultrasound came back as, saying our baby had some stuff going on that really gave us a scare just for the ER to tell us that this place was wrong and they have no clue why we where even there. spent 2 nights at the ER without out 2 year old son so they can just get us in to tell us that theres no reason for us to be there after a big scare thanks guys! Won't ever be coming back after this child. Tisha is one of them.care sucks here.

went to riverbend emergency department in early march, they said i had a cyst on an ovary and…read morereferred me here. i was scheduled originally in june but then was called back and rescheduled for late march with dr hermann. i was then told 4 different times for my appointment via text reminders, and when i called to ask when it actually was i was told it was a full hour after they had told me they scheduled it originally. after showing up and being taken back, i gave a very thorough explanation of the symptoms i had been experiencing. dr hermann was dismissive of what i thought had been going on, and didn't listen to anything i had concerns about. i had been bleeding vaginally for two months and he blamed it on the birth control i've been on with no issues for 6 years. he also then decided adding a second form of birth control was the only solution to the bleeding, even after i let him know i have a history of mental illness and responding poorly to hormonal birth control. after telling him any penetration or external stimulation was extremely painful he proceeded to tell me he was going to do a routine pap smear. he did not ask if i wanted to, he told me he would be doing that. he asked me if i had been std tested recently, and when i said it had been around 8 months he said "we'll do that today as well." i then said i had only had one partner since and i did not think it was necessary and he dismissed my concerns. during the actual pap smear, he told me he "couldn't find my cervix" and that he was going to "feel around a little more" he then proceeded to place his fingers inside of me without asking if that was okay or even letting me know beforehand. after this, he told me he thought my symptoms of severe abdominal/pelvic pain and constant bleeding were from something else, as cysts "don't normally cause that." he then said he would follow up in two months with another ultrasound to prove the cyst wasn't getting any bigger, gave me no solution to the severe pain, and left. overall, i had an awful experience here. i have been trying to transfer care to a different doctor here, saying i will take literally anyone else, and that has somehow been its own issue. i would really not recommend seeing dr hermann, especially if you have any history of sexual assault, as he does not seem to understand the concept of patient consent.