ČKPA is the oldest and longest standing collective of midwives in the country. It is a member of the ICM. It hosted the ICM congress in Prague in 2014.
Stork now shares space with a small clinic in Prague. The building is modern They only have one room now which they describe as "not ideal." However, since there are already registered medical devices on the premises this saves Stork that consideration.
A large new rented facility is built which Stork is allowed to use cooperatively with local family center. They work alongside Willow Tree Family Center.
Stork exists as a birthing facility for just a short 10 months in yet another location. This time they moved to a tenement building. They aren't allowed to use term "birthing house" in their name, and are registered to single midwife adviser Zuzan Stromerova
After a location change and appeal process, Stork still was denied registration. The court formally ended the appeal process upholding the denial of recognition of the birthing house.
Stork took great pains to refurbish the former Kindergarten into a comfortable simulated home for birthing. They decided to continue the legal battle to have their birth center officially registered.
Susan Štromerová, head of Stork and birthing center, publicizes the activities of Stork at the Prague birthing center. Štromerová has several television appearances on Czech television programs geared to women presenting and explaining home birth an surrounding issues.
Zuzan Štromerová, along with cooperation from WHO leads the first birth center located at the teaching hospital in Prague Bulovka. The idea for the center was highly influenced by her
In the re-evaluation of Czech law against EU directives, the status of midwives and nurses become convoluted. The legal definition between the two professions is blurred.
Charges against Ivana Königsmarková are dropped by the Constitutional Court. While officials did not endorse home birth as safe, they found women have a right to them should they choose.
