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How Los Angeles Community Clinics Use the Collaborative Care Model to Improve Maternal Mental Health
This explainer provides an overview of the Los Angeles County Maternal Mental Health Access initiative’s goals, strategic components, and lessons to date.

Midwifery Care in California
Learn about midwifery care and California’s midwife workforce in this collection of CHCF resources.

What Is a Birth Center?
Despite offering high-quality perinatal care, 80% of California’s licensed birth centers have closed in five years. This fact sheet examines the compounding challenges that birth centers face.

What Is a Midwife? — Policy at a Glance
Midwives, ob/gyns, and family physicians are trained to deliver babies in California. In California, a worsening ob/gyn shortage paired with hospital labor and delivery unit closures have generated urgency for expanding access to midwives.






