Advocacy and Health Policy |
Time to Thrive NY: Strengthening Pregnancy Care Together
What Is the Time to Thrive NY campaign?
This campaign brings together maternal health professionals—ob-gyns, nurses, midwives, and doulas—to share in a commitment to equitable, compassionate care for all pregnant people. We empower clinicians to provide care rooted in antiracist practices with dignity, respect, and support.
With maternal mortality rates still too high, and ceaseless legislative attacks undermining access to health care, efforts to address racial and ethnic inequities in maternal health are in jeopardy. Now is the time to strengthen pregnancy care for all New Yorkers. New York must lead the way by continuing to invest in strong, compassionate, evidence-based maternal and reproductive health care. With so much at stake, the cost of going backwards is too great.
Structural racism affects access to essential resources in our society, including housing, jobs, education, access to food, and health care—and obstetric and gynecologic care is no exception. Working with pregnant people, we see the real-life effect of structural racism. We know that the inequities in racial and ethnic health outcomes constitute a maternal mortality and morbidity crisis.
Join Us
Partner with us and other health care professionals to advocate for policies that ensure we have the resources to respond skillfully and compassionately in emergency situations so that our patients not only survive but also thrive. Let’s keep strengthening pregnancy care together.
Sign up to join us in helping pregnant New Yorkers thrive.
Once you’ve signed up, share your commitment and spread the word! Download and share the graphic and post on social media (Bluesky, Instagram, and Facebook) to let your network know that you're working to strengthen pregnancy care in New York.
Our Values
- Every pregnant New Yorker should be able to get the care they need, supported by a committed, compassionate team of doctors and health care professionals who center respect, dignity, and the highest standards of medical care for pregnant people
- Dedicated to strengthening pregnancy care for all New Yorkers, empowering them to decide whether and when to have a family while giving them the compassionate care, clinical expertise, and tools for their families to thrive
- Our goal: every health care professional has access to the tools they need to respond with skill and compassion in emergency situations, ensuring that patients not only survive but also thrive
Take Action: Our Pillars of Commitment
Sign onto our Pillars of Commitment to stay updated and learn about opportunities to advocate!
- Take further action to eliminate racial, ethnic, health, and socioeconomic inequities in access to pregnancy and reproductive care and improve maternal health outcomes
- Uplift clinical expertise, including the tools of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, to ensure the highest standards of patient-centered care and health care decisions based on science, not politics
- Strengthen partnerships among patients, ob-gyns, midwives, doulas, other health care professionals, prenatal and maternal health groups, public health officials, legislators, and others to learn from lived experiences, advance health equity, and improve outcomes
- Protect patient dignity, autonomy, and evidence-based practices amidst the ongoing attacks on reproductive and maternal health care
- Elevate the continued investment needed from all of us—clinicians, hospital systems, state government, public health officials, the community, and patients—in addressing the maternal health crisis for every New Yorker