Village of Healing Women’s Clinic hosted a grand opening celebration Saturday, February 12th inviting potential clients and community leaders to view their new facility located at 22344 Lakeshore Blvd.

The clinic, founded by Certified Nurse Midwife Da’na Langford and Executive Director Tenisha Gaines aims to fill a hole in the healthcare world by providing quality healthcare options for Black people, by Black providers. While the Euclid center focuses on women’s health, the vision of the organization is to deliver quality health care services that meet the social and cultural needs of patients, improving health outcomes and quality of care that eliminates racial and ethnic health disparities.

“We decided to open the Village of Healing center with a focus of Black providers caring for Black patients to decrease real disparities, improve outcomes, and increase satisfaction,” said co-founder and CEO Da’na Langford. Langford goes on to explain that this is just one of the center’s four goals, which also include allowing Black providers to be their authentic selves in caring for their patients, creating a mentoring system for Black students in healthcare fields, and providing an attractive employment option for Black healthcare workers.

“3% to 8 % of midwives in this country are Black, 3% to 5% of OBGYNS are Black and for other specialties the percentage drops below 1%,” explains Langford of the current need for Black health care professionals. On the Village of Healing website, the organization adds: “Evidence suggests when physicians and patients share the same race or ethnicity, this improves the time spent together, medication adherence, consent to preventative services and shared-decision making, wait times for treatment, and patient perceptions of decisions. Implicit bias from providers is decreased.”

“All reports tell us that black patients have better outcomes and patient satisfaction when cared for by Black providers,” says Langford. “We offer all members of the community healthcare that looks like them. We work to ensure health that leads to from surviving to thriving.”

Village of Healing currently offers maternity and well women’s visits with a Certified Nurse Midwife. They are accepting CareSource and Medicaid insurance payments, with other insurances being accepted soon. There are flexible self-pay and membership options also available. Please call (216) 815-HEAL for more info, or to book an appointment.