NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Southcoast Health announced today that midwife Kathleen Pringle, CNM, has joined Southcoast Physicians Group.

Pringle earned her Masters of Science in Nursing at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and obtained a certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.

Pringle joins Southcoast Health with three decades of midwifery experience in southeastern New England and has also served as an assistant clinical professor in the Nurse Midwife Graduate Education Program at the University of Rhode Island. She is a member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

Pringle is seeing patients at Southcoast Physicians Group Obstetrics & Gynecology, 543 North Street, in New Bedford. To make an appointment, call 508-973-2208.