Operation M.I.S.T.

Business Description

At Operation M.I.S.T., we shower moms with love while empowering them to live.

We daily and remotely monitor the health data of women via a smart device to help them have healthier pregnancies, avoid unnecessary complications and medical interventions during delivery and recover well following delivery. If, during monitoring, we notice a woman’s body trying to alert her that something is not quite right, a licensed healthcare provider performs an outreach via text message or phone call and either helps her modify her lifestyle or provides her with the data she needs to have her symptoms further investigated by her provider. Her assigned healthcare provider is available to her 24/7.

According to the CDC, Black women are 2-3x more likely to die during childbirth and in the first year following delivery than White women and 50,000 women experience pregnancy-related complications every year in the United States. The CDC also states that 60% of these deaths and complications could be prevented if early warning signs weren’t missed. We monitor and support women between office visits so those signs aren’t ignored or missed. Because we monitor moms remotely, we eliminate the barrier of access to care in rural and underserved communities.

Through our remote monitoring program, we have helped women:

-get off of blood pressure medications

-detect their pregnancies early

-identify issues that could have led to miscarriage

-get pregnant

-catch infections, preeclampsia and heart failure between office visits

-identify low hemoglobin, iron and vitamin D levels

-manage their blood pressure to avoid premature deliveries

-modify their responsibilities and recruit the necessary help to recover from postpartum hemorrhage

-add vital healthcare providers to their team

Because I had preeclampsia and it was caught by a healthcare provider who looked at me as an individual as opposed to comparing me to other people’s norms and treating me based on protocol, I decided to create a program that did the same thing. Now, women are able to make data-driven decisions using their own data and are surviving delivery and thriving afterwards as a result.