Maternal Mental Health

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.

Policy Updates Impacting Maternity Care in California: CalAIM and 2022-2023 Budget

Maternal Health

The Center for Health Care Strategies will host an overview of California’s new initiatives to transform maternity care throughout the state. The webinar, made possible by CHCF, will also highlight California’s efforts to expand and protect access to reproductive health care.

In Shadow of Devastating Abortion Ruling, California Will Stand Tall

Sandra R. Hernández

Maternal Health

The state's leadership will be more important than ever.

Penalizing Abortion Providers Will Have Ripple Effects Across Pregnancy Care

Julia Strasser, Candice Chen, Sara Rosenbaum, Ellen Schenk, Emma Dewhurst

Health Equity, Workforce, Maternal Health

The Supreme Court is moving toward reversing Roe v. Wade and eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion. This could have immeasurable negative effects on pregnant people and families, including the loss of access to necessary treatment associated with miscarriage.

January 11, 2022

CIN Webinar — Improving Behavioral Health Equity for Peri- and Postpartum Latinx Patients with Depression

Health Equity, Behavioral Health

January 11, 2022

Watch the replay of this CIN webinar to learn how Cherokee Health Systems redesigned workflows and clinical practices to improve the identification and treatment of depression for Latinx patients.

Pandemic Pressures Increase Incidence of Postpartum Depression

Heather Tirado Gilligan

Maternal Health, Health Equity, Behavioral Health

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Without treatment, postpartum depression can prevent parent-child bonding and increase the risk of maternal suicide.

Spreading the Stories of Joyful Black Births

Xenia Shih Bion

Health Equity, Maternal Health

Kimberly Seals Allers talks about her new podcast aimed at debunking negative media narratives about Black 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.

Listening to Mothers in California: Maternal Mental Health

National Partnership for Women and Families

The Listening to Mothers in California survey was aimed at improving the experience and outcomes of pregnancy and childbirth by reporting women’s experiences and preferences on many topics, including maternal mental health. Women diagnosed with a mental health condition should have access to appropriate treatment, counseling, or both.

How Docent Health Navigates Maternity Patients to Better Outcomes

January 19, 2021

Maternal Health, Medi-Cal

Docent Health's patient navigators help California clients access the health and social services they need.

CHCF Invests in Docent Health to Improve Maternity Care Coordination in Medi-Cal

December 9, 2020

Investing in Innovation, Maternal Health

CHCF's new program-related investment in Docent Health will help the company's technology-enabled maternity care coordination platform serve more birthing people enrolled in Medi-Cal.

GetWell Docent

Maternal Health, Investing in Innovation

GetWell Docent pairs pregnant people with navigators that help remotely coordinate prenatal and postpartum services, which too often falls through fragmented cracks in the Medi-Cal system.

Researchers Seek Reproductive Justice for Black Women

September 25, 2020

Maternal Health

An innovative approach to improving the birthing experience for Black people shifts reform efforts from patients to health care providers.

Innovation Landscape: Maternity Care in Medi-Cal

Investing in Innovation, Maternal Health

This paper examines the opportunities for technology-enabled innovations to improve the value and quality of the maternity care that Medi-Cal delivers.

COVID-19 Resources and CHCF Grantmaking: Maternity Care

Maternal Health

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.