Life of Sister Angela Murdaugh, FSM, CNM, FACNM

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Jackie Griggs, CNM, Diana Jolles, PhD, CNM, and Patricia Olenick, CNM, tell us about the life of Sister Angela Murdaugh, FSM, CNM, FACNM, her career, goals, intentions, and contributions.

Patricia Olenick,CNM, has been a nurse-midwife for over 25 years and worked in various settings from community-based birth centers to high-tech teaching hospitals. Some of her favorite former activities include caring for women who were incarcerated, global health projects, and teaching nursing & midwifery students, and Family Practice residents. She is currently semi-retired and just doing ambulatory care. She knew Sister Angela for over 45 years and misses her greatly!

Diana R. Jolles, PhD, CNM, CMMI, is a Maternal Fellow serving within the Learning and Diffusion Group at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Jolles is a public health nurse-midwife and health sciences researcher with over 26 years of experience. Jolles began serving as a National Health Service Corps Scholar in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, where she was mentored in appropriate use, accreditation, grant writing and management and healthcare financing. Jolles is an experienced service director recognized for leading the family-centered expansion of midwifery into the intrapartum program at Denver Health Medical Center as well as the programmatic development and expansion of the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, DC. Jolles has published over 25 peer reviewed publications, mostly around the topic of quality metrics and unwarranted variations in care to childbearing Medicaid beneficiaries. Jolles has maintained continuous appointments to the National Quality Forum, Medicaid and CHIP Scorecard Workgroup, Child and Adult Stakeholder Workgroup, and a multitude of ACOG and ACNM committees since 2001.

Jackie Griggs, CNM, is a Certified Nurse Midwife who has been practicing in the Houston/Beaumont area for the past 35 years. She is a mom of 5 grown sons, 3 born at home with the help of midwives. – Two grandchildren and a new grand baby just recently. She has helped mainly with home and birth center births, but has worked in the hospital some as well. She is the owner of a birth center in Beaumont, – Birth Center of Beaumont – and also helps with home births in the Houston area. She has been on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Birth Centers, until just recently, and still is a very big advocate for midwifery care at a birth center or home, for the women of this country. She is also focused on training new midwifery students and helping to increase the number of birth centers in Texas and the United States

Life of Sister Angela Murdaugh, FSM, CNM, FACNM