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Jennie Joseph
Midwife; Founder and Executive Director, Commonsense Childbirth, Inc.
Jennie Joseph is a British-trained midwife who is focused on ensuring women have their healthiest possible pregnancies, births, and postpartum experiences with dignity and support. She created The JJ Way®, an evidence-based maternity medical home model that delivers patient-centered, culturally congruent care to women in areas she calls “materno-toxic zones.” Joseph is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Commonsense Childbirth, which operates a training institute, health clinics, and birthing center in Orlando, FL, and founder of the National Perinatal Task Force, a grassroots organization whose mission is the elimination of racial disparities in maternal child health in the United States
Previously
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Despite per-capita spending on health care that far exceeds every other nation, the United States has the highest rate of pregnancy-related deaths in the developed world. The...
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Patient-centered care is defined by the National Academy of Medicine as “providing care that respects and responds to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ens...
Resources
Black Maternal Health: When the Village Itself May Be Too Toxic