Pomelo Care

Tanya Rudakevych is a data scientist at Pomelo Care, focused on making it easier to track Pomelo’s clinical outcomes. We asked her a few questions about her work at the company. 🤝 💪 🚀 Her favorite example of teamwork: I was working on bringing birth outcomes data from different sources together to create a single data model for analytics. When it was ready to review, a group of us from the clinical team, operations, and tech sat down together virtually and looked at summary data from this source for the first time. We found that the distribution of adverse outcomes was different from what we expected, which is now helping us develop a more personalized care model. It was awesome sharing that moment and hearing ideas from people with different backgrounds and work experiences. One of our company values is “combine our superpowers,” and we certainly did that day. There are big challenges in healthcare, and it’s nice to not have to approach them alone. Interested in joining the Pomelo team? We’re hiring! Visit www.pomelocare.com/careers.

On Tuesday, November 19, Marta Bralic Kerns will moderate a panel for the Fierce Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Forum. The panel, Innovating Maternal Wellness: Breakthrough Models to Improve Health Outcomes, will discuss solutions to mitigate maternal health disparities, including integrated care models and recently approved therapeutics. She’ll be joined by Desiree Matthews, PMHNP-BC, Anu Sharma, Dawnette Lewis, and Britton J. Crum. You can register to watch the panel live at 2:30 PM ET here: https://lnkd.in/etJk4Huz

Last week, the team at Vital Signs shared their most listened-to episodes, and Marta Bralic Kerns’ episode about the importance of high-quality maternity care, payer contracting, and Medicaid was on the list. Check it out here: Apple: https://apple.co/3G092aK Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3SG5HVP

Pomelo Care is in Florida this week for the annual Synova Associates LLC Perinatal Leadership Forum. This year’s focus is on the pivotal role nurse leaders play in shaping healthcare team culture and effectiveness. Our outstanding Nurse Leads, Alexandra Abbate and Sheridan Murphy MSN, RN, RNC-OB, will speak about harnessing telemedicine for high-risk pregnancies in Medicaid populations. We look forward to having important conversations about how to improve patient outcomes and build a stronger, resilient healthcare system. 

This week, Pomelo Care is a Premier Sponsor and presenter at the #TAHP2024 Texas Covered Conference + Expo, the leading health care event in Texas that brings together industry leaders, innovators, and influencers from all sectors of the healthcare ecosystem. On Tuesday, Pomelo’s own Isabelle Von Kohorn MD PhD, will speak about how Pomelo Care's virtual medical practice, in partnership with health plans, enhances maternal health in Texas by providing effective, evidence-based care that improves patient outcomes. We look forward to dialoguing with stakeholders about how we can expand our reach to even more women and infants across the state!

Please check out MedCity News's coverage of Pomelo's recent acquisition of The Doula Network.

Pomelo founder & CEO Marta Bralic Kerns recently sat down with the Raising Health podcast to talk about the challenges of building in the Medicaid space, how Pomelo partners with managed care plans, and the opportunity to potentially lower costs by providing care and support to pregnant women.

Pomelo Care is proud to announce that we have acquired The Doula Network, the largest network of credentialed, in-network doulas in the United States and the clear market leader in high-quality, in-person doula care. The Doula Network will be fully integrated into Pomelo’s care model, which means patients can now be partnered with a community-based doula in addition to unlimited, virtual, round-the-clock care delivered by a dedicated team of OBGYNs and pediatricians, midwives, nurses, dietitians, therapists, and lactation experts. This hybrid virtual and in-person care model is a first for maternity care. The unique combination of national scale and on-the-ground, local community support significantly expands access to high-quality maternity care in the United States for millions of women. And it comes as states are rapidly requiring health plans to offer doula care. You can read about the news here: https://lnkd.in/eiwJumrc

We’re thrilled to sponsor the 2024 PBGH Maternal Health and Birth Equity Summit happening tomorrow in Denver. Such an impressive lineup of speakers having important conversations about how private and public sector organizations can confront the drivers of the maternal health crisis in the U.S. #maternalhealth #birthequity

💡Curious about Pomelo’s data science team? Meet data scientist Sherry Shenker! Sherry and the data science team build products and tools that enable us to scale a care model to improve care access, reduce disparities, and eliminate healthcare gaps for families nationwide. Learn more about how she works with teams across Pomelo to identify, root cause, and solve problems using data and why she decided to join the team. https://lnkd.in/extdqy79 ⭐ We’re hiring across our tech team! Visit pomelocare.com/careers to learn more and check out some of our open roles below. Data science https://lnkd.in/eDwcm2z3 Product https://lnkd.in/ekWj59yb Product design https://lnkd.in/eFtmgKSJ Security https://lnkd.in/eWJvix7b