Why We Started
OUR STORYAn Alarming Reality
Despite state and national quality improvement initiatives, clinical safety bundles, technological advances & social protections, and safe motherhood initiatives, hospitals do NOT keep Black women, girls, and gender expansive people safe.
Hospitals willfully watch the death or near death gap persist or widen between Black mothers and birthing people and other racial/ethnic groups, in different hospital settings and across different perinatal conditions, experiences, or outcomes.
OUR OBJECTIVE
Our primary objective is to build community and hospital capacity and capability to recognize and respond to the phenomenon of obstetric racism as Black women, girls, and gender expansive people seek help or health care in hospital settings for any pregnancy-related condition, with a focus on hospital labor, birth, and immediate postpartum.
OUR MISSION
The mission of Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC is to improve the quality, safety, and value of health care experiences (“improvement science”) and facilitate community and health system uptake of evidence, empathy, and equity based interventions into practice and policy across the sexual, reproductive, and perinatal life course of Black women, girls, and gender expansive people (“implementation science”).
OUR VISION
Our vision is to build a more humane and just health system that integrates patient experiences and community wisdom of Black women, girls, and gender expansive people into health services design, provision, evaluation, and training. We build community and organizational capacity in birthing cultural rigor in everyday care interactions, communication, counseling, decision-making, documentation, and dissemination.
