Linda Nanni, MS, CNM
Specialties:
Certified Nurse Midwifery
Primary Affiliation:
Women & Infants Hospital
Gender: Female
Languages:
English (US)
Education: |
Georgetown University Hospital |
Medical Group: | Women's Care, Inc. - Providence |
Biography
Linda Nanni, MS, CNM, FACNM, is director of the Care New England Medical Group (CNEMG) Midwifery Service and Women’s Care Midwifery Service and is on the medical staff at Women & Infants Hospital. In 2017, she was named Certified Nurse Midwife of the Year by Rhode Island Monthly magazine.
Nanni received her masters degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and has been a certified nurse midwife (CNM) since 1983. She came to Rhode Island in 1984 to begin the midwifery service at the Rhode Island Group Health Association and directed that service for six years. Nanni is the past chairperson of the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Nurse Midwives and remains actively involved in statewide affairs that affect maternal-child health.
She has been an advisor to the Department of Health on various issues including RIte Care, prescription privileges for CNMs, barriers to the practice of CNMs. She is the immediate past regional representative to the American College of Nurse Midwives where she represented New England. Nanni has been with Women's Care since June 1996 and is director of its Midwifery Service. She has been and continues to be actively committed to the training of midwifery students, and is currently on the teaching staff of Yale University and the Frontier School of Midwifery.
Press Releases
Women's Care Midwives Honored | 12-02-2016 |

"I am passionate about providing access to midwifery care and helping women have a safe and satisfying childbirth experience."
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