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Great article about Community of Hope in D.C. Aug 1, 2018 9:59:41 GMT -5 Tanya Munroe and Mindy Schorr like this

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Post by John Craine on Aug 1, 2018 9:59:41 GMT -5

How This DC Birth Center Is Building the ‘Answer for Black Women’

Jul 31, 2018, 4:39pm Miriam Zoila Pérez

The District of Columbia has the highest infant mortality rate of any capital city in the developed world, but Ward 5's Family Health and Birth Center is showing what it might take to improve the health and wellness of Black women and children...

rewire.news/article/2018/07/31/how-this-dc-birth-center-is-building-the-answer-for-black-women/

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Great article about Community of Hope in D.C. Aug 1, 2018 11:54:57 GMT -5

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Post by Tanya Munroe on Aug 1, 2018 11:54:57 GMT -5

"Mercedez Milling-Robinson finished the Centering program last year when her daughter, her second child, was born. “I just had such a good time,” she recounted about her experience with Centering in a recent phone call with Rewire.News. For her first child, she received care from an obstetrician at another local health provider and was really unhappy with the care she received. Her appointments with her OB were really impersonal, she said, and her desire for an unmedicated labor wasn’t respected."