Patient Engagement December 11, 2023
Doulas center an interdisciplinary care team at NewYork-Presbyterian as the organization sets its sites on better maternal mental health treatment.
NewYork-Presbyterian wants to do something about the nation’s maternal mental health crisis. In an effort to prepare pregnant people in their third trimesters for their new, child-filled lives, the healthcare organization is tapping doulas as patient advocates.
“Disparities in maternal and early childhood health really have been pervasive and deep-rooted in the United States for some time but were exacerbated during COVID in 2020,” Davina Prabhu, vice president of the Ambulatory Care Network at NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP), said in the most recent episode of the Healthcare Strategies podcast.
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