Maine Coast Women Care 306 Main Street (New Address) Ellsworth 664-5650

Clinical Interests

• Full scope women's healthcare, including annual physicals, infection checks, prenatal care, menopausal care and deliveries. Birthing services exclusively performed at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital.

Education

• Bryn Mawr Birth Center 
  Internship

• University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
  Master of Nursing in Midwifery

• University of Maine School of Nursing
  Orono ME
  BS Nursing

• Eastern Maine Medical Center School of Nursing
  Bangor ME
  Diploma RN 
  Earned OB Award

• Other Training: 
  First Assistant for Surgeries
  Teaching of butterfly baby massage

Licensure & Certification

• Registered Nurse Advanced Practice Midwifery
• Certified Nurse Midwife
• Neonatal Resuscitation

Affiliations

• Maine Coast Memorial Hospital
• American College of Nurse Midwives

Comments

• "I enjoy all facets of my practice, and feel honored to participate in the miraculous events of the birth process."
  Renata grew up on a small farm in Hancock. The only child of an artist father and a general practitioner mother, her early experiences helped shape a great love for the beauty of the natural world and a curiosity to understand the “why” of life. The art and science of midwifery felt like a perfect fit from a young age.
  Renata entered the R.N. diploma program at E.M.M.C. in Bangor, Maine in 1981 with the plan to become a Nurse Midwife. Life brought other interesting experiences (as it always does). Renata worked as an R.N. in many areas of nursing, as well as in obstetrics, obtaining her B.S.N. in 1991. In 1994 she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters in Nursing, specialty Nurse Midwifery. In 1995 she returned to practice in the Downeast Maine area; since 1998 working with both Diane Ferenbach, CNM and Carole Ray, RN.
  The working relationship of the practice uses the principle of “circling”, which helps each coworker to have democratic input and equal responsibility. Renata lives in Hancock with her husband and spends free time kayaking and painting. She has one son, born in 1984, now grown but, of course, never far from her mind.