Our Local Collective Impact Initiatives mobilize cross-sector organizations and community members locally to address the underlying challenges impacting moms and babies and deploy strategies to improve rates of preterm birth and maternal mortality.
This is a multi-year effort that will require time to build shared agendas, infrastructure and community partnerships and then implement strategies to create real, measurable change in these 9 U.S. communities.
Select a location to learn more about our initiative there.
Access to prenatal care and quality medical care for birthing people can make the difference between life and death. This report shows that more than half of births in Georgia are paid for by Medicaid and Georgia is one of just three states to extend Medicaid coverage to postpartum women.
Skye Wheeler, a senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, discusses the correlation between extreme heat and adverse birth outcomes with NBC 6 News.
Read this press release announcing approval by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend Medicaid state plan benefits from 60 days to six months to postpartum women with incomes up to 220 percent of the federal poverty level.