Dr. David Lagrew is an OB-GYN and founding member of the CMQCC.  How did the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative get started?  In 2005 the state [of California] noticed that our maternal mortality rate was increasing. So CMQCC was formed in 2006 with the intent to lower maternal mortality in the state of California, funded

Sonia Sarkar was previously the Chief Policy and Engagement Officer for the Baltimore City Health Department. Fifteen years ago, I volunteered at clinics in East and West Baltimore. There, the patients I met taught me that the best medicine in the world can only go so far if you have no food to take it

For Elliot, a veteran who was weathering a difficult transition back to civilian life, it wasn’t just one problem that was holding him back. It was a combination of severe anxiety, money troubles, and failed plans that had left him feel hopeless. He began to  contemplate suicide when, he says, “all my plans from A