Proven leaders with success developing industry-leading clinical and provider programs, and scaling across health plans nationwide.

Areas of Expertise

Access to Care || Identification of Pregnancy || Lactation Support || Postpartum Extension || Transforming Maternal Health || Centering Pregnancy || Rural Health and Maternity Deserts || Birth Justice || Value-Based Programs || Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement || Strategic Program and Benefit Design || Strategic Partnerships || Medicaid Procurement || SPA, 1115 Waiver, & In Lieu of Services || Collaborative Care || Enhanced Care Management || Provider and Community Capacity Building

What We’ve Done

  • Strategic Program Development and Evolution spanning:

    • Benefit design and advocacy: covered benefits, in lieu of service (ILOS), pilots

    • Doula models: hospitalist/shift structures; virtual programs; peer support

    • Enablement of Perinatal Community Health Workers and Lactation Consultants

    • Care and collaboration strategies within 12mo postpartum extension

    • Rural Health and Maternity Care Deserts

    • Perinatal telemedicine, home visiting, and remote monitoring

    • Member engagement, value-added services, and rewards

    • Integrated care, collaborative care, and Centering Pregnancy models

    • AIM Safety Bundles and Transforming Maternal Health Model (TMaH​​)

    • Community-based and provider-led care management models

    • Value-based programs and payment innovation for birth providers

    • Workforce development and capacity building

  • Program implementation and scaling across 20+ diverse Medicaid health plans

  • 18 Medicaid procurements with subject matter expertise in Women’s Health, Network Management, Value-Based Programs, and Provider Reimbursement

  • Grantmaking: Design, Recruitment, Management, and Evaluation 

  • Research Advising, Implementation, and Evaluation

  • Group Facilitation, Consensus Workshops, and Action Planning

  • Full-Spectrum Doula one-to-one care

Managing Partners

Davinah and Kristy have worked together for years as community advocates, corporate strategists, and innovative collaborators.

Hypha Advising is the alchemic combination of two diverse sets of experiences overlapping in their dedication to creating systems in which pregnant and parenting families thrive.

Davinah

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    Davinah (she/they) is a full spectrum doula and educator living as a guest on unceded Suquamish territory, commonly known as Seabeck, WA. Her background is in Higher Education, birth justice/doula work, perinatal health consulting/strategy, and somatic coaching. She leans on her intuition, humor, and storytelling to drive her work. When she is not working, she enjoys creating and indulging in beautiful food with those she loves, gardening, and making absurd amounts of playlists.

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    Kristy (she/they) is a dedicated strategist and facilitator with over 14 years of experience in healthcare systems and managed care. A big-picture thinker and lover of nuance, she specializes in perinatal health, community-based providers, and value-based care, and has worked with a diverse range of healthcare providers and facilities to improve outcomes. In her time away from work Kristy is raising a rambunctious toddler, tending a neighborhood coop of chickens, and enjoys a good book with a cup of tea.

Hypha is exactly what I’m looking for!

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A hypha is a long, branching filament that makes up the mycelium (the growth and communication network) of fungi. The word hypha comes from the Ancient Greek word huphḗ, which means web.