Two Years of Impact
Our enhanced focus on maternal and infant health
In 2025 we celebrated measurable outcomes achieved with our clinical and community partners in the first two years of our expanded Maternal and Infant Health Initiative.
Our Maternal and Infant Health Initiative is in its third year, with nearly $5 million awarded in 2025 to 38 partners in Illinois, New Mexico and Texas. The program is helping expand access to quality maternal and infant health care, reducing health disparities and addressing social factors that influence a mother and baby’s well-being.
Several of these efforts helped bolster the maternal health workforce, including training for midwives and doulas, who provide vital support and services during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.
Since its inception, the initiative has reached more than 326,000 individuals, providing over 2 million services and supporting more than 7,600 births.
Investing in community partners
We're collaborating to make an impact
Community-based organizations and clinical partners are at the heart of the initiative.
Some of the 38 organizations funded in 2025 are implementing quality-based maternal health programs that reduce the number of preterm and low-birth-weight babies, as well as obstetric and postpartum emergencies.
Others are expanding access to comprehensive health services, including behavioral health care, and increasing awareness and community engagement to reduce maternal deaths and health disparities.
In New Mexico, for example, Changing Women Initiative offers culturally integrated health. During its initial grant term, the organization served more than 200 individuals, supporting 50 births and providing more than 150 postpartum care visits.
2025 MIH Impact
Closing gaps in care and improving outcomes
The expanded Maternal and Infant Health Initiative completed its second year in Texas in 2025 and its first full year in Illinois and New Mexico.
38
partner organizations selected
219K+
people served in 2025
978K+
services provided in 2025