Kathleen Page

Kathleen "Katie" Page, CNM, MSN, FACNM, is honored to receive the 2025 Allison Adams Wieczorek Scholarship.  Katie earned her BA in Health Services from Randolph College (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s College) in 2008 and her MSN – Nurse-Midwifery from Vanderbilt University in 2009.

Currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado College of Nursing, Katie studies the implementation of midwifery-led care service models in healthcare systems to improve quality and reduce healthcare disparities. A Texas native, she grew up dreaming to become an OB/GYN nurse. In high school, during an internship at a hospital labor unit, she recognized the need for person-centered, “low-tech-high-touch” care not delivered by physician clinicians. From that moment she was called to Nursing and Midwifery.

Since 2010, she has practiced full-scope midwifery providing primary sexual, reproductive, perinatal, and newborn care to a diverse population from puberty to menopause in rural and urban settings. Her purpose is to ensure people receive care aligned with their values and preferences through relational continuity, a focus on physiologic wellness, and judicious interventions—this is midwifery care!

Katie has led quality improvement efforts to reduce cesarean births, fostered collaborative relationships among midwives and physicians, and worked to improve hospital-home birth transfers. She has published reviews, quality improvement, and quantitative research in nursing and midwifery journals about pharmacology and clinical guidelines for oxytocin.  Other topics she has written articles about include, experiences of litigation among US midwives, increasing nurse self-efficacy for labor support, evidence-based strategies for induction of labor, and redefining midwifery-led care service models in the US.

Since 2015, she has served on her state professional association’s legislative committee, leading policy victories for full practice authority and improved reimbursement and hospital privileges for midwives in 2021 and 2025.  These legislative wins expand access to midwifery, particularly in rural hospitals. Her practice and policy work inspired her PhD focus in health care systems research, where she studies with leading midwife and nurse scientists.  She is building skills for advocacy and health systems leadership through healthcare systems and implementation science approaches grounded in the disciplines of nursing and midwifery.  The Allison Adams Wieczorek Scholarship affirms her commitment to ensuring everyone has access to excellent midwifery care in every community.