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Maternity Care and Paying for Maternity Services

Learn about maternity coverage in Medi-Cal, including eligibility, covered services, and payment.

September 25, 2020

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How We Can Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mental Health

Perinatal mental health specialist Anna King talks about the connections between maternal mental health and birth equity.

July 12, 2024

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Black Maternal Health Crisis Requires Support for Black Health Care Workers

A new report from the Urban Institute addresses structural barriers to entering and remaining in the maternity care field.

June 23, 2023

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Improving Maternal Mental Health Care

CHCF is working with partners to develop innovative, practical solutions for delivering mental health care to California’s mothers and expectant mothers in need.

June 27, 2024

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Midwives Help Fill Maternity Care Gaps as California Faces OB-GYN Shortage

Patients’ access to birthing services would improve if numerous obstacles to midwives’ efforts were removed.

October 31, 2025

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The Untapped Power of Midwives in California’s Maternity Care Ecosystem

California has a skilled midwifery workforce that’s ready to plug gaps in patient-centered, high-quality birthing care.

October 24, 2025

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Maternal Mortality: A Human Rights Issue

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: In the US, black women die during pregnancy and childbirth at a rate more than triple that of white women. Maternal mortality isn’t just a women’s rights issue — it’s a human rights…

June 29, 2018

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Maternity Workforce Insights

This series of conversations takes a look at the critical roles of doulas, lactation professionals, mental health professionals, and midwives.

February 13, 2025

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Listening to Community Voices: A Health Plan’s Approach to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternity Care

Through a structured process with providers, health plan members, and CBOs, Molina Healthcare identified three lessons that might help other organizations collaborating with communities on reducing racial disparities in maternal health care.

February 5, 2025

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COVID-19 Resources and CHCF Grantmaking: Maternity Care

COVID-19 is raising many issues about how maternity care is being delivered. We’ve compiled a set of online resources and other materials we have found which we hope are helpful to you.

May 28, 2020

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Efforts to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality Complicated by COVID-19

Stories That Caught Our Attention: How can we support Black mothers and birthing people during a pandemic that is amplifying health disparities?

April 20, 2020

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Yelp Partners with CHCF to Add Maternity Care Measures to Popular Search and Review Site

Information about where to get the best maternity care can be hard to find. Yelp now displays maternity care measures for all California hospitals that deliver babies. A mobile module is also available.

February 1, 2018

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UCSF Favors Pricey Doctoral Program for Nurse-Midwives Amid Maternal Care Crisis

Midwives questioned the university’s motivations at a time when the state has serious shortages of maternity care workers.

September 6, 2024

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Listening to Mothers in California

More than 2,500 women share their attitudes and experiences of childbirth. The results reveal what is and isn’t working with maternity care in the Golden State, including key opportunities to advance birth equity and address maternal mental health.

September 12, 2018

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Diverse Maternity Care Workforce Essential to Advance Birth Equity

A conversation with midwife Angela Sojobi about her decades of experience and the urgent need for more Black midwifery students.

March 14, 2024

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Maternity Care and Paying for Maternity Services

How We Can Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mental Health

Black Maternal Health Crisis Requires Support for Black Health Care Workers

Improving Maternal Mental Health Care

Midwives Help Fill Maternity Care Gaps as California Faces OB-GYN Shortage

The Untapped Power of Midwives in California’s Maternity Care Ecosystem

Maternal Mortality: A Human Rights Issue

Maternity Workforce Insights

Listening to Community Voices: A Health Plan’s Approach to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternity Care

COVID-19 Resources and CHCF Grantmaking: Maternity Care

Efforts to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality Complicated by COVID-19

Yelp Partners with CHCF to Add Maternity Care Measures to Popular Search and Review Site

UCSF Favors Pricey Doctoral Program for Nurse-Midwives Amid Maternal Care Crisis

Listening to Mothers in California

Diverse Maternity Care Workforce Essential to Advance Birth Equity

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