C-Sections

2023 Edition — Quality of Care: Maternal Health and Childbirth

While California continues to make progress on the quality of care provided to women during their pregnancies and deliveries, there is room for improvement. This set of quality measures focuses on maternal health and childbirth.

2021 Edition — Quality of Care: Maternal Health and Childbirth

While California continues to make progress on the quality of care provided to women during their pregnancies and deliveries, there is room for improvement.

When It Comes to C-Sections, All Hospitals Are Not the Same

September 30, 2019

Xenia Shih Bion

Maternal Health, Medi-Cal

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Take a look at America's cesarean section capital to see how challenging it is to reduce surgical childbirth for low-risk, first-time mothers.

Maternity Care in California — Almanac Collection

Maternal Health

The Almanacs in this collection provide an overview of the delivery of maternity care in California using available metrics, and compare the state’s performance on these metrics by demographic groups, over time, and against national numbers.

In San Francisco and New York, Doulas Connect with Low-Income Mothers

Xenia Shih Bion

Maternal Health

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: In California and around the nation, expectant women of color prefer that doulas help them before, during, and after childbirth — and public agencies are launching programs to make it happen.

Listening Post

October 26, 2018

Xenia Shih Bion

Maternal Health, Workforce

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Patients’ health outcomes can suffer when providers don’t dedicate time to making a personal connection with them.

Not Listening to Mothers

September 12, 2018

Behavioral Health, Maternal Health, Medi-Cal

A new major survey finds a significant disconnect between the maternity care women want and the care they end up getting. The results of Listening to Mothers in California, released today, reveal what is and isn’t working with maternity care in the Golden State.

Listening to Mothers in California

Maternal Health

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.

Data Snapshot: Listening to Mothers in California

Carol Sakala, Eugene R. Declercq, Jen Joynt

Maternal Health

This wide-ranging population survey asked Californian women about their experiences with childbirth and health care, in both English and Spanish.

Infographic: The Overmedicalization of Childbirth

Maternal Health

This infographic highlights results from a survey of California mothers that finds women are getting too many unwanted and unneeded interventions during childbirth, even when less invasive alternatives are available.

September 20, 2018

Webinar — Highlighting Women’s Views and Experiences with Maternity Care in California

Maternal Health

September 20, 2018

This webinar featured a discussion of key findings from California's Listening to Mothers survey.

Reducing Unnecessary C-Sections in California

Maternal Health

CHCF worked with partners statewide to promote higher-value maternity care by reducing the rate of unnecessary c-sections in five years to under 23.9% for low-risk deliveries.

Webinar — ‘Your Voice Matters’: Educating Women About C-Sections

Maternal Health

This webinar described how the patient education materials developed by CHCF, CMQCC, and Consumer Reports can be used to educate women and promote productive communication about c-sections between women and their care teams.

Essential Coverage: The Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week

Xenia Shih Bion

Behavioral Health, Health Care Costs

Welcome to the first edition of Essential Coverage. Every Friday, we’ll send you into the weekend with a recap of stories we found worth reading — stories covering all our topics, from health reform to maternal health, to opioid safety, and much more.

Sharpening Our Focus

February 20, 2018

The California Health Care Foundation wants partners and other stakeholders to understand what our new strategic priorities mean in practice.