Northern Light Mercy Hospital adds staff to new midwifery practice

 Northern Light Mercy Hospital added certified nurse midwives what does a computer engineer do, Jennifer Gilbert and Elsa Heros to its newest medical practice, Northern Light Mercy Midwives, formerly Back Cove Midwives.

Grillo, who has several years experience in obstetrics and gynecology, helped bring the specialized pregnancy and childbirth care to Mercy Hospital’s birthplace center in 1992 and spearheaded a midwife clinic for socially and financially challenged women at the hospital.

Gilbert worked for eight years as a labor and delivery nurse at Mercy Hospital, and has been practicing at Back Cove Midwives since 2007.

Heros has served on the faculties of the University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital, and the University of Southern Maine, where she ran precepts for nursing students at Mercy Hospital’s birthplace center in Portland.