UnitedHealth Group has partnered with Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) to help increase healthcare access for Black mothers.
Through the partnership, UnitedHealth Group and MSM introduce a new mobile app to connect Black mothers in underserved communities in Georgia with resources to help improve their health and their children’s well-being.
MSM collaborated with Georgia Tech, Emory University and Georgia State University to develop the app, Preventing Maternal Mortality Using Mobile Technology (PM3).
“The United States should be the safest place in the world to give birth, and yet we’re nowhere near it. The rates of maternal mortality and morbidity in this country — especially for Black women — are a national health crisis we have an obligation to address from every angle,” said Dr. Margaret-Mary Wilson, Chief Medical Officer at UnitedHealth Group.
PM3 provides Black mothers access to a network of fellow mothers, valuable health information and the ability to ask questions about their postpartum journey.
“PM3 was created by Black women for Black women and provides culturally relevant resources and information to eliminate barriers to equitable postpartum healthcare,” wrote the creators of the app. “We created a health intervention that was informed and desired by Black moms. We want them to know we see them, we hear them and we are them.”
