{"id":328564,"date":"2026-08-24T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328564\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:14:16","slug":"news-12-bronx-doula-coverage-expanded-to-some-nyc-employees-starting-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328564\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Doula Coverage Expanded To Some Nyc Employees Starting 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Access to care before, during and after childbirth is expanding for people in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mamdani says MetroPlusHealth will be introducing Doula coverage for city employees with gold plan memberships starting in January. The move is part of the citywide Doula initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The new benefit will include up to eight visits both before and after birth, as well as one in-person labor and delivery report visit.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,200 people have received Doula care through the citywide Doula initiative since its launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Access to care before, during and after childbirth is expanding for people in New York City. Mayor Mamdani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-328564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}