MOUNT HOPE, WV (WOAY) – Owner/midwife Zach Nunnally says they’ve wanted this for a long time and the city needs something like this.
“We’re one of the only walk-in clinics in the state,” said Nunnally. “So to have more low-income individuals that don’t have the ability to schedule certain things and travel to those locations — we’re within walking distance of low-income communities. And then easily accessed for other communities.”
The midwife says he loves women’s health: including home birth, hospital birth, birth center birth, gynecology, and the whole spectrum because ultimately he gets to see women advocate for themselves, and he encourages advocacy and research.
“We’re not a place where someone could say, ‘I did my research, what do you think of this,'” Nunnally said, and they just say no or they’re the provider, they know better. “Instead, we’re focused on women being autonomous in their care because that improves outcomes.”
He says he watched his wife give birth (she was cared for gently) to their first child. In a way that was not true when she had a miscarriage a year prior. That got him hooked and he knew he wanted to be a midwife.
“Through childbirth education classes, volunteering at pregnancy care centers, trying to make a difference,” Nunnally said. “I ended up becoming a doula. I doulaed in a hospital for years, and I saw the same thing over and over — lack of patient autonomy, lack of respectful care, and the overuse of unnecessary intervention.”
According to the midwife, they have made care accessible — even financially and have itemized service pricing.
“So you don’t have to worry about paying a large price for a GYN visit when you just want to find out if you’re pregnant or if you have an STD or something like that,” said Nunnally. “You’re worried, you’re stressed, we will take care of just that thing.”
They are looking for the patient to direct their care, and they have answers when the patient has questions.
“The pinnacle of truly providing good care is that they’re always the focus,” the midwife said patient-centered care is gonna make the biggest difference for the people of our community. “But really, to set a standard for care across West Virginia, across the US.”
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Tuesday | 8am-2pm
Wednesday | 2pm-8pm
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Monday through Friday
304-207-4984
