Most preventable maternal harm in the United States doesn't happen in the exam room. It happens in the months before delivery, in the weeks after discharge, in the gaps between scheduled visits where nobody is watching. The OB practice owns the appointment. The pediatrician takes over for the baby. The health plan owns the claims. The mother — the patient most at risk — is everyone's responsibility and nobody's.

Community programs have spent decades trying to fill that gap. Food banks. Housing programs. Mental health support. Lactation circles. Transportation assistance. Benefits navigators. The work has been essential and largely invisible — and the patients who need it most have been the hardest to reach.

The problem isn't lack of programs. It's that no one in the clinical system has been responsible for connecting patients to them. Community programs spend more on outreach than on services. Show-up rates hover well below half. Documentation lives in spreadsheets that nobody reads. Funders demand outcomes that take more staff time to report than the services took to deliver.

Phia exists to take that responsibility.

We are a virtual perinatal medical group, contracted to Pennsylvania Medicaid plans and OB practices, operating across the full perinatal year. We monitor risk continuously, deliver behavioral health and lactation and post-discharge specialty care, and identify patients with social and resource needs that fall outside what clinical care alone can address.

When our care team identifies a need your program serves, we refer the patient to you with clinical context and the patient's preferred contact method. The patient is expecting your call. You confirm engagement back through Phia, and that confirmation flows directly into your own grant and state reporting.

If you run a program that serves birthing families in Pennsylvania, we want you in the network.