Candace’s Story: The Impact of Doula Support during Pregnancy and Childbirth

At Excel by Eight, one of our goals is to ensure that all women receive complete, high-quality preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care. Candace’s experience highlights the importance of doula support in advocating for patients’ voices to be heard during childbirth. She shares how her doula, Nicolle Fletcher, provided crucial support during Candace’s challenging 36-hour labor, […]
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs executive order forming a steering committee to improve maternal health in Arkansas

Today, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order to create the Arkansas Strategic Committee for Maternal Health. Excel by Eight looks forward to working alongside this steering committee to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies across the state. For every 100,000 babies born in Arkansas from 2018-2021, about 43.5 mothers died of pregnancy-associated complications. This is the […]