{"id":357415,"date":"2026-07-01T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357415\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:01:08","slug":"partnering-on-pregnancies-texas-health-diana-health-look-to-improve-birth-outcomes-with-midwifery-led-approach-in-allen-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357415\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnering on pregnancies: Texas Health, Diana Health look to improve birth outcomes with midwifery-led approach in Allen | Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Health\u2019s services extend beyond the delivery room, with the clinic offering care for general gynecology needs, menopause and wellness, its website states. The clinic also offers mental health care services, which Buxton said can help patients that may otherwise avoid seeking out care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStress and fear degrades health,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you are dealing with a health problem &#8230; and you don\u2019t get care, that can lead to much bigger problems downstream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jen Biundo\u2014senior director of Policy and Research for <a href=\"https:\/\/hftx.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Futures of Texas<\/a>, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes sexual health education and resources for young Texans\u2014said that outcomes that occur without access to comprehensive maternal care can cause a \u201cripple effect\u201d from the mother to the baby by passing along health complications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe components of having a healthy baby are providing high-quality maternity care, so we see things like gestational diabetes that impacts the mom but can also impact the health of the baby,\u201d Biundo said. \u201cThese things can make it harder for the child to thrive and excel, and when we look at the long-term impact of this, we can see things like poor educational outcomes for the children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diana Health\u2019s services extend beyond the delivery room, with the clinic offering care for general gynecology needs, menopause&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1242,127024,712,127025,127026,160,162,161,55700,55701],"class_list":["post-357415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen","tag-allen-babies","tag-dallas-fort-worth","tag-diana-health","tag-diana-health-allen","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-texas-health-allen","tag-texas-health-presbyterian-hospital-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}