INCLUSIVE GROWTH By working with partner organizations to e昀昀ect change, we’re better positioned to broaden and deepen our impact among communities close to home and across the globe. Quality Preventative Health / Having a Child Morehouse School of Medicine’s (MSM) Center for This funding will support: Maternal Health Equity • Culturally competent and knowledgeable communications This foundational grant directly addresses the training among providers, which can prevent health disproportionate maternal mortality that Black women mismanagement, delays, failure in diagnoses, and poor face in comparison to white women. The Goldman Sachs patient advocacy Foundation grant funds will help the center to build • Additional training and education for perinatal key partnerships, conduct research, and train clinicians professionals and initiatives to create a pipeline of more to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality at local, diverse caregivers national, and global levels. • Creation of a rural maternity health residency program designed to expand the maternal health workforce in Georgia individuals are gainfully employed, they can make more informed decisions on acquiring Goldman Sachs is proud to be a foundational partner healthcare bene昀椀ts. Those bene昀椀ts should for the MSM’s Center for Maternal Health Equity. include prevention and wellness strategies to Below is an excerpt from a conversation with Dr. Valerie promote health versus promoting sick care. Montgomery Rice, President and CEO of the Morehouse Q: How does this foundational grant lay the School of Medicine and One Million Black Women groundwork for MSM to implement sustainable Advisory Council Member. solutions for equitable access to healthcare? Q: COVID-19 laid bare the health disparities in A: Addressing maternal health inequities Black communities — are you con昀椀dent these requires targeted e昀昀orts toward modi昀椀able communities will have increased access to factors grounded in health equity and quality quality healthcare going forward? improvement. Our patient-centered training program promotes a culture of equity by A: While I remain hopeful, I am not convinced that addressing implicit bias and individual and we will not fall back into our previously held systemic racism while also utilizing quality comfort level … To avoid this, we need to ensure improvement tools and transforming culture. that there continues to be a pathway of access The foundational grant from Goldman Sachs to healthcare. For that to be sustained, one allowed MSM to develop training programs solution is to advance opportunities for more that are aligned with the organizational and Sustainability Report 2021 leadership priorities of MSM. secure employment. I am con昀椀dent that when Inclusive Growth | One Million Black Women 59