ARC Fertility to provide family-building benefits to American Medical Women’s Association

ARC Fertility will provide family-forming benefits to the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) to support employees.

The AMWA is an organisation dedicated to supporting women in medicine and improving women’s health.

It aims to advance women in medicine, advocate for equity, and ensure excellence in healthcare. Its membership includes physicians, residents, trainees and other healthcare professionals.

Every year, fertility leaders gather in New York City for the Night of Hope Gala to honour notable contributions to the field of infertility and family forming.

At this year’s gala, RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association honoured AMWA with the Hope for Advocacy Award.

ARC Fertility, a California-based network of fertility clinics, congratulated the association on this recognition and expressed its excitement to have been chosen as a partner to provide its staff with fertility benefits.

“AMWA and Dr Paula Amato more than deserve their RESOLVE honours,” sais G. David Adamson, founder and CEO of ARC Fertility.

“I am so proud that AMWA is walking the talk of women’s healthcare by selecting ARC Fertility to provide AMWA staff with family-forming benefits.”

Eliza Chin, executive director of AMWA, said: “We have been thankful for the support of RESOLVE and ARC Fertility in our work.

“Our goal is that access to programmes, resources, and benefits coverage be available to any physician and trainee who seeks it. And this year, AMWA is partnering with ARC Fertility to make sure we also put words into action and made fertility benefits coverage available to all AMWA full-time employees.

“We hope that other healthcare organisations will join us in this effort,” Chin added.

In 2021, the number of large companies offering or enhancing their family-building benefit grew by eight per cent year-over-year, according to FertilityIQ.

International Foundation research confirms that the prevalence of these benefits is on the rise with preliminary data from the 2022 Employee Benefits Survey showing that 40 per cent of US organisations offer at least one fertility benefit.

Jenny Saft, co-founder of the fertility benefits platform Apryl, says an increasing number of women choose to have kids later in their life.

“Now it’s more important than ever to start speaking openly about egg freezing or IVF.

“If employers can implement strategic benefits, to give people access [to fertility care] they can make a huge statement not just by encouraging a more inclusive approach but by helping employees to plan their families and thrive in their career.”