University of California, San Francisco: Team Lily

Team Lily, a clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, was designed to make it easier for patients affected by mental illness, SUD, homelessness, and intimate partner violence to access perinatal care. “Anyone who is facing barriers getting into a standard four-walled pregnancy clinic, we’re ready to take care of,” says Dominika Seidman, MD, MAS, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and San Francisco General Hospital. To build trust, Team Lily sends navigators and social workers to meet pregnant patients in shelters, encampments, and homes. They also prioritize meeting patients’ basic needs, including food and shelter. An evaluation, funded by FORE, found that three-quarters of all patients in the program with an SUD received treatment and left the hospital with their babies. At one year of life, 90 percent of Team Lily babies were up-to-date on their well-child visits.