Cherished Futures for Black Moms & Babies last month received a key $300,000 grant from Health Net via The Centene Foundation for Quality Healthcare. The funds empower the HASC / Communities Lifting Communities initiative to move its health equity work forward across the Los Angeles area. 

“We are excited to continue building on the momentum from last year and look forward to deepening our collective work with Health Net, our hospital partners, the health department, and community advisors,” said Dana Sherrod, Cherished Futures project lead.

First supported by a two-year Health Net grant awarded in 2019, the Cherished Futures collaborative officially launched in January of 2020. Cherished Futures brings together decisionmakers from local birthing hospitals, public health departments, health plans, and Black women serving as community advisors, to co-design systems-change solutions at the clinical, institutional and community levels.

View or download the Health Net press release here.

This year, three Southern California hospitals are participating in the two-year Cherished Futures pilot cohort and are beginning to implement their quality improvement plans with the goal to improve birth outcomes and patient experiences and safety for Black mothers and birthing people.

The three facilities include Cedars-Sinai, Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center, and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center, Torrance. 

Cherished Futures is also funded by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, First 5 LA, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan, and the California Health Care Foundation.

To learn more, visit www.cherishedfutures.org.

With questions on Communities Lifting Communities or Cherished Futures, please contact CLC President Susan Harrington. 

Contact:
Susan Harrington
(562) 884-2383
sharrington@hasc.org