Cassandra Garcia, CNM, MSN

Personal Information:
3821 SW Coquina Cove Way
#101
Palm City, FL 34990
(561) 283-7913 - Phone
(561) 229-9897 - FAX
E-mail: info@CassandraGarcia.com


Birthdate: October 31, 1956, Austin, Texas

Education:
Undergraduate: Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas.
Bachelor of Science, Nursing, with minors in Biology and Sociology.
Graduate:  University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Master's degree in Nursing with specialty in Nurse Midwifery.
Clinical training: University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Jackson North Maternity Center, and the Women's Center of Martin County.

Awards:
U.S. Public Health Service Traineeship Grant.
Fellowship by the ACNM/Maternal Child Health Bureau, Washington, DC. Selected as one of ten CNMs nationwide for this honor.  This was an opportunity to network with officials on both national and state levels regarding Maternal Child Health issues. In this capacity I was chosen as the sole representative for U.S. Region 4.

Professional Organizations:
Member:  American College of Nurse Midwives, Association of Texas Midwives
Preceptor: CNEP (Community Based Nurse Midwifery Education Project)
Frontier School of Nursing and Midwifery, clinical training for CNM students,
Key West and Pahokee, FL.
University of Miami, Nurse Midwifery and Family Medicine department.

Research:
Patient Satisfaction at the Daystar Health Center: A Descriptive Evaluation
Research Study.  Unpublished Master's thesis, University of Miami

Related Work Experience:
April 1999 to present:
Part time staff CNM, office gynecology. The Womens' Center of Martin County, Stuart, FL.

August 1998 to present:
Staff CNM, Nurse Midwifery Service, Martin Memorial Health Systems, Stuart, FL. One of five CNMs staffing three Martin County health department clinics weekly, serving a diverse patient population, including a large population of Guatemalan Mayan indians and Mexican migrant farm workers.  OB census for the CNM service, 400 to 500 deliveries per year, appoximately one third of the total OB volume for the hospital.

Clinical faculty, part time, Nurse Midwifery Program, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.

April 1997 to August 1998:
First nurse midwife to practice full scope nurse midwifery in western Palm Beach
county on Lake Okeechobee. In association with Robert L. Hatton, M.D., at Everglades Regional Medical Center, including management of high risk obstetrics, obstetric sonography and first assistant for C-sections. This is in a rural, agricultural community founded in 1927, Everglades Regional Medical Center being the oldest hospital in Palm Beach county.  Annual OB census is approximately 600 births.

January 1994 to 1997:
Associate in joint CNM/MD private practice, Doctors and Midwives Group.  Full scope
CNM practice, including co-management of high risk obstetrics, with offices in
Key West, Marathon and Islamorada. Hospital privileges for obstetrics at Lower
Florida Keys Health Systems and birth center practice at Babies by the Sea; A Birth
Center.  Annual OB census for the practice is approximately 300 births.

June 1990 to January 1994:
Associate in joint CNM/MD private practice, Doctors and Midwives Group. 
Full scope CNM practice with offices in Key West, Marathon and Islamorada.
Hospital privileges for obstetrics at Lower Florida Keys Health Systems
(formerly Florida Keys Memorial Hospital).

December 1986 to September 1988:
Obstetrics and gynecology office R.N. for a private practice with W.J. Morse, Jr., MD,
and Helen Swallow, CNM.  Maintained per diem status as a labor and delivery nurse
at Florida Keys Memorial Hospital, Key West, FL.

December 1985 to July 1990:
Staff R.N. in Obstetrics department at Florida Keys Memorial Hospital.
This is the only obstetrics facility in the Florida Keys with an obstetrical census of approximately 800 births per year.

1986:
Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters - Adjunct faculty at Florida Keys Community
College in the Associate degree program in Nursing as clinical preceptor.

May 1984 to December 1985:
Staff R.N. II at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. Worked
in the Obstetrics department in the rooming-In postpartum unit.  UTMB is a regional
tertiary referral center for the State of Texas with an annual obstetrical census of
10,000 births.

August 1981 to March 1984:
Partnership as a licensed midwife in private practice in North Texas, with the
|supportand backup cooperation of  J.M. Rampoldi, MD and Dr. Schenck, DO.
Attended approximately 250 births as the primary attendant and many more as an
assistant in a home birth setting.

April 1978 to December 1980:
Licensed midwife in private practice in the greater Houston, Texas area with the
support and backup cooperation of Dr. Stogre, MD and Dr. Kondejewski, MD. This
was a family practice.

January 1978:
Completed requirements to become a Licensed Midwife in Texas through the Houston Association for Midwife Education, in conjunction with the Public Health Department.

January 1976 to April 1977:
Studied and worked under the supervision of Dr. Harold Graves, MD, at a medical
mission on the Mexico-Guatemala border.  Classroom and clinical experience in
prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn care.

December 1975 to December 1976:
Served and studied as a lay medical worker and emergency relief worker during the Guatemalan earthquake, January 1976.

Special Skills:
Full scope nurse midwifery practice, including gynecology and co-management of
high risk obstetrics. 
First assistant for C-sections.
Basic obstetrical ultrasonography.
Computer literacy.
Bilingual: Fluent in both conversational and written Spanish. 
Lived and worked for twenty years in both South and Central America.

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