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Meredith Goff has been a CNM for more than twenty years and joined the faculty of Yale School of Nursing in 2003. She was born in Waterbury, CT and now makes her home in Fairfield. After completing her midwifery education at Columbia University in 1983, Goff practiced in New York City for eight years, providing midwifery services to low income women throughout the city.
Upon moving back to Connecticut in 1993, she joined a collaborative MD/CNM practice in Fairfield County that provided health services to a broad spectrum of women in the greater Bridgeport area. Noting the lack of home birth and birth center services in the area, Goff established Connecticut's first CNM home birth service in 1997, while also working toward establishing an accredited birth center in the state. After determining that a joint venture with a hospital would provide the best possibility for success, she established a relationship with St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, offering women in the area the opportunity to give birth in a home-like setting based on the midwifery model of care.
Since 2003, Goff's work at the YSN faculty practice, Women's Health and Midwifery (WHAM), has focused on providing the greater Derby community with birth options not readily available before in this area of Connecticut. Through her years of practice in the state, Goff has developed a reputation for the type of high quality, hands on approach to patient care that has attracted a following of women, both during their pregnancies and beyond.
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