Our Impact
From research to community action — causal evidence, pilot outcomes, and the real difference C.E.N.T.S makes.
Case Study
From Research to Community Action
How CENTS Health Equity Navigator connects research, community insight, and pilot action to address health equity gaps — spanning maternal health, the sandwich generation, and real-world outreach pilots.
Surfacing What the Data — and the Community — Are Saying
1 in 4 Black women and Latinas report difficulty accessing OB-GYN care. 57% experienced unfair or adverse treatment during pregnancy or childbirth. 58% report low trust in California's birthing care systems. Black mothers face a maternal mortality rate 3 to 4 times higher than other racial groups, making trust-centered navigation not optional but essential.
Maternal Health
Research & findings on disparities affecting Black women & Latinas in California
Surfacing What the Data and the Community Are Saying
1 in 4 Black women and Latinas report difficulty accessing OB-GYN care. 57% experienced unfair or adverse treatment during pregnancy or childbirth. 58% report low trust in California's birthing care systems. Black mothers face a maternal mortality rate 3 to 4 times higher than other racial groups, making trust-centered navigation not optional but essential.
Sandwich Generation
Caring for children, aging parents & themselves — all at once
Health Inequity Across Every Life Stage
CENTS addresses the sandwich generation, people simultaneously caring for children, aging parents, and themselves. This broader lens frames health inequities not only as a maternal issue but as a care-navigation, preventive access, and family-support challenge affecting underserved communities across every stage of life. No one should fall through the cracks while caring for everyone else.
Pilot Activity
Foot Care for Life — from insight to real community action
Foot Care for Life as a Community Entry Point
To move from research to real-world impact, CENTS launched Foot Care for Life as a community pilot. This created a direct path to reach the public, offer free care, listen to what people were facing in real time, and surface barriers to care among underserved communities. 500+ served. 10+ partners engaged. 2 days of free care delivered.
Causal Evaluation Framework
CENTS does not rely on vanity metrics. Our evaluation model is built to satisfy hospital risk-management and procurement guidelines by establishing a rigorous causal contrast — not correlation — between clinical workflow outcomes.
Late-stage presentation due to no community-level early detection; elevated amputation risk and acute hospitalization cost.
Undetected risk factors in community spaces; patients arrive in crisis at L&D — increasing emergency intervention, ICU admission, and maternal mortality exposure.
Community wellness sentinels surface early neuropathy and wound signals. AI routes structured alerts to podiatry before clinical crisis — directly reducing late-stage amputation incidence.
Caregiver and salon-based observations detect early warning signs. Warm handoff to OB team occurs before emergency threshold — directly reducing preeclampsia crisis rates and maternal mortality risk.
Causal Contrast Stated: The clinical workflow operating with the CENTS Navigator directly causes a measurable reduction in late-stage diabetic amputations and maternal preeclampsia crises compared to equivalent traditional workflows operating without it — moving beyond surface-level vanity metrics to meet the evidentiary standards required by hospital risk-management, quality improvement, and procurement review boards.
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