• Progress:  In Progress
  • MHSP Priority Area: Increasing Access to High-Quality Care
  • Recommendation: Increase utilization of non-medical supportive services that can support greater cultural competency in perinatal care and improve health outcomes, like community health workers, peer services, and doulas by working with providers and payors to encourage greater partnership with and referrals to non-medical providers.
  • Actionable Strategies: Improve Access to “Non-medical” supports
  • Lead: Fabric Health
  • Lead Web Site: https://www.panavigate.org/fabric-health--pittsburgh-pa--fabric-health/6005698683011072?postal=15228

 

Access to High Quality Care Actionable Strategies Plan

Fabric Health was awarded $150,000 to address barriers to accessing and supporting prenatal and postpartum care. Fabric Health works with mothers and families at laundromats, turning a weekly chore into an opportunity to solve urgent needs. Their navigators provide pregnant and postpartum individuals with resources to address food insecurity, utility insecurity, access to transportation, and insurance coverage, among other pressing needs. The organization has a growing demand for their services, and this funding will help address this need with a focus on Allegheny and Philadelphia counties. Both counties experience disparities in maternal health and have increasing rates of severe maternal morbidities.