Mahmee’s Digital App Connects New Moms and Physicians

On February 12, 2021, LA Business Journal reported, on Mahmee co-founder and Chief Executive Melissa Hanna.

MCH Ventures Inc., doing business as Mahmee, is a family-run business in the business of supporting families.

The company, which operates a digital platform connecting health care providers and new mothers, was founded in 2014 by Melissa Hanna and her mother, Linda Hanna, along with former SpinMedia Chief Technology Officer Sunny Walia.

The younger Hanna explained that the company is continuing work that her mother, a longtime lactation consultant and registered nurse, has been doing for decades.

“The inspiration for starting the company,” Hanna said, “was seeing the frustration that my mom had expressed through the years working in this industry where her routine complaint was that there weren’t a lot of tools or technologies available to connect the maternal and child health industry together.”

Hanna said the health care industry in the United States has done well focusing on the health of newborns in recent decades while neglecting the health of new mothers.

According to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control, infant mortality rates dropped nearly 40% between 1990 and 2017. At the same time, pregnancy-related mortality nearly doubled.

Health outcomes for both mothers and newborns of color are even more concerning. Infant mortality rates are nearly twice as high for children born to Black mothers than the rate for the total population, and Black mothers are three times more likely to die within a year of pregnancy than white, Latina or Asian mothers.

“Controlling for (education and socioeconomic status), the only thing that predicts whether you’re at risk of mortality related to childbirth is race,” Hanna said. “It lays bare the issues we still have to tackle in this country.”

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