Careers · Opening in the first year
We don't need coverage. We need the second person every mother knows by name.
A certified nurse-midwife to share the pregnancy year with Dr. Lloyd: the prenatal visits that run as long as they need to, labour, delivery at Mercy alongside him, and the postpartum months that usually get rushed. The point of two of you is that every patient is known by both, so a delivery never means a stranger walking in.
The work, in your hands
The visits
Prenatal care on a schedule set by the pregnancy, not the calendar. Twenty-five to ninety minutes. You'll know her history because you were there for it.
The night
Delivery at Mercy, with Dr. Lloyd attending and you beside him — or you leading and him ten minutes away. Two people who share a phone and a patient list, so nobody is ever explaining herself to someone new at 2 a.m.
The year after
The six-week check, feeding, mood, recovery, the parts that usually get a pamphlet. Here they get you.
The chart
One record, one plan, one physician who answers his phone. Maternal-fetal medicine looped in when it's needed, not handed off to.
The room
The fourth floor. A chair by the window. Matcha or coffee. You'll set the tone of a room a woman will remember for the rest of her life.
From one clinic to a way of doing this.
thrē opens on the fourth floor in early 2027 — one physician, four hundred members, and the aesthetics and IV rooms open to anyone. That's the flagship, and it's built to be copied carefully: a second clinic in 2028 (Nashville or Oklahoma City), and more after that if the first one stays what it is. Slow, on purpose.
Which means the first people hired aren't filling a seat. They're first in line — for leading the room they built, for the second clinic, for shaping the systems the next hires follow.
What we hope she says
There were two of them, and both of them knew me. When my water broke at four in the morning I called a number and a person I'd sat with for an hour answered it. That's it. That's the whole review.
A future review, from a patient — or from us. The goal isn't perfection. It's presence, and making a woman feel that thrē was built for her.
Pay that respects the role
Full-time when it opens, in the first year of the practice — we'll say when, here. Salary and the structure will be on this page when the role is, because every price in the clinic is published and it would be strange to hide only this one.
Salary $135,000 a year. Health coverage. Time off that survives a delivery schedule. $2,500 a year for continuing education and one conference on us. Malpractice covered — occurrence, in your name, including births. Membership for you and your daughters. A physician who has your back at 3 a.m. because he is also awake.
That's above what a midwife is paid in every state around us and above the national average, for a practice that caps how many women it takes on. No productivity target; the number doesn't move with your volume.
Questions we get
Where do you deliver? Mercy, in Rogers. Dr. Lloyd attends; you'll have privileges there.
How many births? Fewer than you're used to. Four hundred members caps the practice, which caps the pregnancy year. The trade is that you'll know every one of them.
Hospital-employed now? Most of the people we'd want are. Experience in a system that rushed you is, honestly, a plus — you'll know what we're not.
Is this one of those jobs where “we're like a family” means unpaid overtime? No. Deliveries happen when they happen; everything else ends when it ends, and it's paid.
What happens next
Write to us. Tell us what you do and what you're tired of. A person reads it — usually Dr. Lloyd — and replies within a week. Then a conversation on the fourth floor, unhurried, and a day alongside us before anyone decides anything. Nobody signs anything on the first visit; that's true for you too.