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In addition to standard enhance prenatal care (EPC) services, the following will be offered. Community level. We will make EPC services (i.e., MIHP and Healthy Start) available via telehealth with flexible hours to women who are eligible for Healthy Start (primarily minority women) who decline traditional (i.e., home visiting) services. Provider/practice level. We will provide actionable maternal health-focused anti-racism training to health system administrators, physicians, residents, midwives, nurses, front desk staff, schedulers, public health officers, EPC staff, doulas, WIC staff, and lactation consultants. System level. Counties will implement equity focused community care maternal safety bundles. Community care is care provided by outpatient, EPC, community-based organizations, and linkages between hospital care and these settings.

Pregnant women in comparison counties will receive whatever EPC services (MIHP and/or Healthy Start) they naturalistically choose to receive. Maternal Infant Health Program (MIHP). All women in Michigan who are Medicaid insured are eligible for MIHP. MIHP offers monthly home visiting and care coordination to supplements regular care during pregnancy and up to 12 months post birth. MIHP offers care coordination; risk assessment; individual care plan; evidence-based interventions; transportation; education; and referrals. Healthy Start. Health Start is a federally funded program for minority women that offers more intensive EPC services delivered by race/ethnicity matched community health workers. Community health workers offer peer support; resilience and problem solving; risk assessment; facilitating provider-client communication; collaborative care; system navigation, including transition from prenatal care to postnatal primary care; and supportive referrals.