Maternal Health
NTTAP Learning Collaborative
Medical-Legal Partnership to Improve Maternal Health Access and Outcomes
Available On Demand: Recording and Slides
ABOUT
The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and Renaye James Healthcare Advisors invite health center-based medical-legal partnership teams to take part in the upcoming Learning Collaborative: Medical-Legal Partnerships to Improve Maternal Health Access and Outcomes. The Learning Collaborative is designed to empower participants with an increased understanding of how the social drivers of health impact maternal health and help them learn how to use MLP to improve maternal health outcomes for health center patients and their communities.
Over four informative sessions, this Learning Collaborative will provide T/TA to health center staff to develop strategies and action plans for aligning MLP activities with potential policy and population health approaches. We encourage health centers that work with multiple special populations, including pregnant women and children, to share their insights and strategies that can be adapted to communities’ unique needs. Each session is 90 minutes.
FACULTY & PRESENTERS
Bethany Hamilton
JD
Co-Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Bethany Hamilton is the Co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. Hamilton has worked in every policy environment across the country – from local to federal, red to blue, rural to urban. She has a unique understanding of healthcare and legal services operations, and the challenges and opportunities inherent in each. She sees medical-legal partnership and NCMLP as a vehicle to help dismantle the systemic inequities that have hindered our progress as a country and threaten to further divide us. Hamilton is dedicated to leveraging her knowledge, leadership, and savvy to accelerate opportunities to improve the systems and policies that most affect health and well-being.
Senior Advisor, Practice Transformation, Renaye James Healthcare Associates
Dr. Rachel Mandel is a physician executive with over 28 years of clinical, executive and teaching experience.
In her career, Dr. Mandel has developed a passion for the successful alignment of administration and medical staff in order to adopt transformative changes in healthcare to include population health initiatives and total cost of care models. She is experienced in evaluating key dynamics and issues on both a healthcare system and service line level. She advocates for wide-spread and meaningful improvements in clinician communication in order to positively impact patient experience and quality outcomes. Dr. Mandel is experienced in developing and coordinating effective teams that drive high reliability, performance improvement and efficiency.
Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, most recently Dr. Mandel worked within the Frederick Memorial Healthcare System, in Frederick, Maryland from 1998 through 2018, beginning as a Private Practitioner, and serving in various executive and physician leadership capacities, including Vice President of Medical Affairs. Her experience included forward thinking work in Population Health, Quality Improvement, Physician Alignment, Emergency Preparedness, Women’s Health, as well as Patient and Family Centered Care.
S. Roxana Richardson
JD
MLP Director of the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance's Perinatal Legal Assistance and Wellbeing (LAW) Project, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
S. Roxana Richardson, JD is the MLP Director of HJA’s Perinatal Legal Assistance and Wellbeing (LAW) Project at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. As part of the Women’s & Infants’ Services (WIS) “Safe Babies Safe Moms” program, Roxy provides no-cost legal services to women facing issues that raise legal barriers to their efforts to achieve optimal health and well-being for themselves and their infants. In serving WIS patients, Roxy draws on expertise gained as an attorney serving over 300 diverse clients during her four years with the Health Law Partnership (HeLP), an MLP in Atlanta, Georgia, located in Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) and included partnerships with local law and medical schools to address the socio-economic barriers affecting lower-income children and their families in order to improve their health and well-being. Roxy received her J.D. from Stetson University College of Law and her undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University. She is barred to practice in the District of Columbia and Georgia. She is fluent in French.
Loral Patchen
PhD, MSN, MA, CNM
Medical Champion for the Perinatal LAW Project and Associate Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Director of the MedStar OB/GYN Specialty Center, and Section Director for Midwifery, MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC)
Loral Patchen, PhD, MSN, MA, CNM, is Medical Champion for the Perinatal LAW Project and associate chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, medical director of the MedStar OB/GYN Specialty Center, and Section Director for Midwifery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC). At MWHC, Dr. Patchen is responsible for strategic and operational leadership for innovation in maternity services, direction of midwifery services, and implementation of the Safe Babies Safe Moms Initiative, of which the Perinatal LAW Project is a key component. Dr. Patchen also leads several innovative research and intervention programs to promote equity in maternal and child health outcomes. Dr. Patchen’s clinical expertise includes reproductive and sexual health of adolescents and young adults, including direct clinical service at school based health centers. She is board certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and she is fluent in Spanish as well as English. Her experience prior to joining MedStar Health includes service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras and as a consultant for the World Bank. Dr. Patchen earned her PhD in Public Health Sciences in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, where she also earned a master’s degree in International Economics (Community Health). She has an additional master’s degree in Nursing for Midwifery from Yale University.
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,499,661 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.