Part-Time
Community Doula Navigator / Malama Ambassador
Bilingual
Posted on 8/21/2026
Malama Health
11-50 employees
Doula-led, tech-enabled maternal care platform
Compensation Overview
$25/hr
San Antonio, TX, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid role with regular travel across assigned counties for partner site visits and community outreach.
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- 1-2 years of experience as a Community Health Worker, Community Doula, Case/Care Manager, or Social Worker.
- Must be a certified birth doula before employment, including training, attendance at three births, and CPR training, and must enroll in Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership Medicaid.
- Must be reliable and responsive to text messages and calls and comfortable learning new technology.
- Must be fluent in written and verbal English and bilingual in written and verbal Spanish.
- Must have deep ties to and lived experience in the communities served.
- Must be able to travel regularly across assigned counties for partner site visits.
- Must be comfortable engaging with community-based organizations, following up, and tracking outreach activities.
- Prior experience working with Medicaid and/or community-based maternal health programs is required.
- Must be located in Texas.
- Conduct outreach, check-ins, and comprehensive assessments through phone calls, SMS, video calls, or in-person encounters to identify and meet patient needs.
- Assist patients with appointment setting, office visits, social services applications, and other requests.
- Coordinate with health plans, service providers, and multidisciplinary care teams to advocate for patient needs and drive services to completion.
- Use evidence-based practices such as motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, and harm reduction to engage patients and communicate information toward positive habit change.
- Use required care management portals to document care coordination and other services in a timely manner.
- Meet patient caseload targets and prioritize services according to intensity, need, and required follow-up.
- Conduct in-person outreach at WIC clinics, federally qualified health center waiting rooms, and community-based organization program sites across assigned counties.
- Conduct virtual outreach and engagement through social media and other online spaces.
- Help organize or staff monthly pop-up events, baby supply giveaways, community baby showers, and clinic tabling days.
- Identify opportunities for Malama to highlight its services at community events hosted by other organizations.
- Experience with Google Workspace, including Sheets, Docs, and Drive, Notion, Slack, and Zoom.
- Experience working with Medicaid and/or community-based maternal health programs.
Malama Health provides doula-led, tech-enabled maternal care for high-risk pregnancies, primarily serving Medicaid populations. The service combines mobile app-enabled remote monitoring (glucose, meals, Bluetooth devices) with in-person and virtual Doula-Care Navigators who support from pregnancy through 12 months postpartum, and integrate with health plans and clinical systems via an EHR-agnostic platform. It identifies clinical risks and escalates to clinicians, while helping patients access social services; revenue comes from per-member-per-month payments from Medicaid managed care plans and health systems with outcome-based incentives. The company aims to scale equitable maternal care, improve outcomes (e.g., reduced postpartum diabetes, fewer preterm births, fewer C-sections) and broaden geographic reach through partnerships and value-based care.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$9.3M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2022
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- March 2026 brought $9.2 million led by Acumen America plus NIH and California funding.
- Malama serves California, Texas, and Colorado, with active expansion into additional states.
- More than 600 clinic and hospital partners strengthen distribution and referral volume.
What critics are saying
- Medicaid rate pressure in 2026 will squeeze per-member economics and quality bonuses.
- Flourish Care and Nadia Care are raising capital, crowding payer attention.
- Expansion into new states depends on contracting, doula hiring, and integration timelines.
What makes Malama Health unique
- Malama pairs doula care with biometric monitoring and EHR-connected escalation.
- Its Medicaid-first model sells to plans, health systems, and community health centers.
- The postpartum-year workflow targets gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and diabetes prevention.
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↓ -9%Malama Health Secures $9.2M | Nitra Raises $187 Million. March 23, 2026 Check out today's featured companies who have recently raised a round of funding, and be sure to check out the full list of past healthcare IT fundings. Malama Health Secures $9.2M to Scale Doula-Led Maternal Care for Medicaid-Insured Women Nationwide Oversubscribed Seed Round Led by Acumen America Accelerates Malama Health's Mission to Build the National Infrastructure for Continuous, Doula-Led Care Across Pregnancy and Postpartum Malama Health, a Medicaid-first maternal health company, today announced an oversubscribed $9.2 million seed round led by Acumen America, with participation from Wisdom Ventures, Capital F, and Coyote Ventures, alongside angels from the company's pre-seed round. The raise includes a $2.3 million NIH grant and more than $1 million in California state funding, reflecting alignment from federal and state stakeholders alongside venture capital. The capital will expand Malama Health's care network across Medicaid markets, grow its Doula-Care Navigator workforce, and deepen managed care and community health center partnerships. Modern maternity care was not designed for continuous support. Research shows that labor and delivery nurses are constrained to spend just 6-10% of their time on comfort measures and emotional support, far below the 53% that mothers expect. Women with continuous physical, emotional, and mental support through labor and into the postpartum period require fewer interventions and experience better outcomes - and for most Medicaid-insured women, who represent more than 40% of U.S. births, that support has never existed. The postpartum period is where most pregnancy-related deaths occur, yet the standard of care offers little beyond a single six-week visit. Malama Health was built from day one to address birth equity and high-risk pregnancies. Its multilingual, EHR-connected patient-facing app delivers accessible technology and educational content written at a fifth-grade literacy level, meeting women where they are. Doula care navigators are embedded within communities, working alongside clinician oversight, remote biometric monitoring (glucose, blood pressure, weight), and managed care coordination in a single connected model. Doulas attend births, conduct home visits, navigate between appointments, escalate clinical risk signals in real-time, and remain engaged through the full postpartum year. "Women in this country are trying to navigate a sick care system that was never designed for them. Most get a handful of prenatal appointments and one postpartum visit, and then they're on their own," said Mika Eddy, Co-Founder and CEO at Malama Health. "We built Malama to be the support system they should have had from the start." Patient-reported outcomes data from more than 2,500 women show a 6% decrease in NICU admissions, a 9% decrease in C-section rates, and a 38% decrease in preterm birth rates. A randomized controlled trial conducted at Tufts Medical Center found that women who used Malama during pregnancy were significantly less likely to develop diabetes, reporting a 40% difference in postpartum diabetes outcomes versus standard care. "Health equity in maternal care requires trust," said Veenu Aulakh, Director at Acumen America... 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The financing includes $72 million of new equity across a $50 million Series B round and a previously unannounced $22 million Series A completed in August 2025 from investors including Actions Capital, AppWorks, Comma Capital, Dunamu & Partners, Era Funds, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Pantera Capital, and Sazze Partners. The financing also included participation from AAF, Gaingels, Hyphen Capital, K8, Mana Ventures, Necessary Ventures, PIDC/Uni-President, Purestone Silks, SignalRank, Simu Liu's Markham Valley Ventures, Soma Capital, and others. The company also secured $20 million in venture debt from Avenue Capital Group and an expanded $95 million warehouse facility from Treville Capital Group and Encina Lender Finance, LLC. Dr. Richard Park, Founder and former CEO at CityMD, joined Nitra's Board of Directors. CityMD merged with Summit Health, and the combined company was acquired by VillageMD (owned by Walgreens) for $8.9 billion in 2023...
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Malama Health, a doula-led maternal care provider focused on Medicaid, has raised $9.2 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Acumen America. The funding includes a $2.3 million National Institutes of Health grant and over $1 million in California state funding. The company provides continuous care to pregnant women through remote patient monitoring, chronic disease management and care navigation from pregnancy through postpartum. Malama is in-network with Medicaid plans in California, Texas and Colorado, receiving per-member-per-month payments with quality incentives. Patient data from over 2,300 patients show a 19% decrease in NICU admissions, 13% decrease in caesarean rates and 45% decrease in preterm births. Malama's free app has been used by more than 45,000 women across all 50 states.
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