Enhancing Our Focus
Our expanded commitment to maternal and infant health
We’re increasing access to care, reducing care gaps and educating and engaging communities to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.
In 2023 we expanded our longstanding efforts to improve maternal and infant health, recognizing that the rates of deaths and other adverse outcomes remain unacceptably high.
The enhanced initiative — which started in Texas and expanded to Illinois and New Mexico in 2024 — prioritizes:
- Increasing access to care.
- Promoting quality during childbirth.
- Investing in organizations addressing social drivers that play a role.
- Supporting efforts to expand the maternal health workforce.
Investing in community partners
We're collaborating to make an impact
In 2024 we invested in 50 partner organizations to expand support for moms and babies.
Providing resources to community-based organizations and collaborating with clinical partners is a vital part of the initiative.
In Illinois, New Mexico and Texas, we're working with Vitamin Angels to distribute no-cost prenatal vitamin bottles to community-based partners to share with the women they serve.
In December we joined the March of Dimes in Houston to celebrate the state’s first-ever Mom & Baby Mobile Health Center, funded with the help of a $1.2 million grant from our Texas health plan.
Other investments are providing professional education for clinicians, helping providers adopt tech-enabled maternal health platforms, and expanding the maternal health workforce.
2024 Impact
Closing gaps in care and improving outcomes
The expanded initiative completed its first full year in Texas in 2024 and launched midyear in Illinois and New Mexico.
51
partner organizations
81K+
people served
3K+
healthy babies born to women who engaged with the program since the expansion in mid-2023