Key lessons we’ve learned at Wildflower over more than a decade of building, evolving, and growing in this space: Follow the Money (Yes, It’s Complicated in Healthcare) -- Stay Focused, But Make Room to Grow -- Dream Big, Stay Practical. More than anything, it’s important to stay tapped into your passion and purpose for fixing our broken healthcare system and how it impacts women’s health, quality of life, and longevity. It is not a journey for the faint of heart, but it’s a fight worth fighting that these lessons learned help spark and sustain the next wave of women’s health innovators.

Healthcare organizations are increasingly being held accountable for the health outcomes of patients. Accountable care – or value-based care – offers the promise of better collaboration among care partners and more personalized care plans for patients, particularly in maternity care. Wildflower Health’s CEO & Founder Leah Sparks joined Atlantic Medical Group’s OBGYN and Ambulatory Director Fatima Naqvi to discuss where and how accountable care plays a role. We’re breaking down some key points.

Wildflower delivers personalized experiences that activate women in their own care, while simplifying the healthcare journey for families with a modular model of human touch and digital tools. To continue that mission of care, Wildflower now offers lactation support from third trimester through postpartum. Learn more about our nationwide virtual appointments and in-person appointments.

With the mission of driving health system transformation through digital, Praia Health is a modern, consumer platform for health systems that revolutionizes the delivery of individualized health solutions at scale. The Praia Health platform is changing the way Wildflower Health can be woven into a health system’s digital experience. We're excited to be one of the first organizations to join their Ecosystem Partner program.

An important part of improving maternal health outcomes within a given population is being proactive and staying ahead of complications that can lead to worse, and more costly, outcomes for mom and baby. Traditional methods for stratifying risk in healthcare aren’t dynamic or comprehensive enough to ensure success. Here’s how Wildflower approaches risk stratification in maternity care, and what we’ve learned from our model.

In our latest ebook, we examine two major access issues for maternity care among rural Medicaid beneficiaries, and we explore solutions to address them. Learn how maternity care deserts and low reimbursement rates are negatively impacting care and the models required for positive change.