Whitefish women are seeing a shift in obstetrical and gynecological care with the opening of a new OB/GYN clinic at the Logan Health Specialty Clinic at 2000 Hospital Way, across the street from the Birth Center.

Currently, a large portion of deliveries at the Birth Center are done by providers from two independent practices – Heart and Hands Midwifery and Family Healthcare and the Alpine Women’s Center. At the end of the year, two of the three obstetric providers at Alpine – Dr. Mirna Bowden and Dr. Katheleen Lewison – will switch to practicing only gynecology, leaving the world of childbirth.

“The day-to-day in obstetrics gets to be a lot after a while,” said Leslie Carpenter, Alpine’s practice manager. “It’s kind of always been their plan to back out of that world a little bit and foc

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