North Texas
Maternal Health Accelerator

Rose Bradshaw

President & CEO

North Texas Community Foundation

“Dallas and Fort Worth are such distinct communities, and our families sit in a region where they are served by hospital systems that are serving many families. It is important that we work in a coordinated fashion and share solutions that are community based but also can be scaled. We want to make sure that no matter what zip code you’re born in whether it’s Dallas or Fort Worth you have the best opportunity to thrive.”

Latasha Jarrett, M.D.

Chief Medical Director

HHM Health

“We’re very appreciative of the ability to be able to give iron supplements to our moms. We serve such a diverse patient population and anything that we can do to improve maternal and fetal outcomes we’re always very interested. This has been a real win for us organizationally as well as for our patients.”

Steve Miff, Ph.D.

CEO

Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation

“We’re so privileged to be a part of this coalition to bring some of the advanced analytics that we’ve developed over the years to support this program. It takes a whole connected community to be able to impact the lives of women and provide improved maternal care. We’re using data to precisely reach women in communities with the greatest maternal care needs and personalize these lifesaving interventions.“

Cameron Combs

Senior Director

Child Poverty Action Lab

“North Texas is special. There are things we have in our region that don’t exist in other parts of the country and the innovative maternal care models that we have are scalable not only in Texas but across the United States. We’ve brought together the most innovative maternal care research, services, and care in Fort Worth, Arlington, and Dallas to do things that we couldn’t have imagined to be possible when this initiative first started.”

Brandi Buss, B.S.N, RN

Network Director of Perinatal Services

My Health My Resources of Tarrant County

“This effort by the Maternal Health Accelerator (MHA) gives us the opportunity to reach women where they are. By putting all our resources together, we can be more effective at reaching women in high-risk areas with maternal care resources that we may not have been able to reach as individual organizations. We’re removing barriers for access to care and taking these critical resources to moms and their families to make sure they have everything they need.”

Sadie Funk

National Director

Best Place for Kids®

“The North Texas Maternal Health Accelerator creates an opportunity to save the lives of mothers and babies in North Texas, improve long-term health outcomes for our community, and ensure that North Texas has a strong foundation for every mother, baby, and family to thrive. Through the combination of evidence-based, relationship-centered practices alongside high-tech innovations, our region is perfectly poised to scale proven interventions for moms and babies across North Texas. We are honored to be a part of the solution and proud of the unprecedented collaborative work of our hospital and healthcare coalition partners who have proven that together, we can achieve transformative change.”

Sara J. Redington

Chief Philanthropy Officer

The Miles Foundation

“We believe that connecting moms and families in North Texas with resources that they need is impactful. We will continue to listen to moms and parents to understand their needs and improve Parent Pass®, a first of its kind technology, with their input. We think Texas is coming to the forefront of developing something that is going to be a life changer for moms and babies.”

Adam Powell

President & CEO

United Way of Tarrant County

“This is something that as an organization we have committed too and different partners in both counties are committed to it. We will continue to lead this work and do this work because we owe it to mothers, we owe it to our respective communities, and all the organizations that have identified this as being one of our major healthcare challenges and that’s what United Way stands on.”