Author(s): Caprice Yu, Executive Creative Director, Cityblock Health In September of this year, we celebrated our five-year anniversary at Cityblock. This was a huge moment; five years ago, a group of people passionate about equality in healthcare decided to radically improve the health of marginalized communities at scale. In the…

Author(s): Toyin Ajayi, M.D., Co-founder and CEO, Cityblock Health; Sonika Mathur, SVP, Head of Social Care and Determinants of Health, Cityblock Health Why would a healthcare company urge you to vote? If all politics is local, then all health is personal, and nothing has more of an impact on the…

Author(s): Saad Khan, Senior Product Designer, Cityblock Health; and Stuart Kim, Product Design Lead, Cityblock Health Since 2017, Cityblock Health has been innovating ways that healthcare professionals work together to deliver care at scale to people that need it the most, primarily Medicaid and dually eligible individuals. These are marginalized…

Author(s): Michael Tang, M.D., Head of Behavioral Health, Cityblock Health; Kameron Matthews, M.D., Chief Health Officer, Cityblock Health Mental Health Awareness Month 2022 comes at an opportune time in the country’s health history. The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, and acts of violence continue to drive feelings of anxiety and…

Author: Dr. Pooja Mehta, Womens health lead, Cityblock Health “We can learn to mother ourselves” — Audre Lorde In the wake of Black Maternal Health Week and with another Mother’s Day upon us, we find ourselves inundated with the same old statistics speaking to a state of inequitable maternal care…

Dr. Toyin Ajayi, Cityblock Health co-founder & CEO Today, as I step into the role of CEO at Cityblock, I am full of gratitude, humility and optimism for the path ahead. Over the past (nearly) five years, Cityblock has grown from an ambitious idea to a company that is transforming…

Q&A with Janine Horne, MSN-Ed, RN, Manager of Nursing and Community Care at Cityblock in Washington, D.C., and Sherree Bradley, RN, Registered Nurse Care Manager at Cityblock in Charlotte, NC “Look for the helpers.” When the headlines in the news, or the experience of our everyday lives feels like too much, we focus on…

Dr. Kameron Matthews, Chief Health Officer, Cityblock Health. Destiny is often thought of as an invisible hand guiding us towards the inevitable. But I’ve found that destiny doesn’t do home visits. When something feels right, you have to go for it. I joined Cityblock this month as Chief Health Officer…

Tiffany Joyner, Hub Operations Director, Cityblock Health Health care may be local, but caring is personal. North Carolina is my home, and the needs of my community are real to me. I know the challenges of people who feel marginalized by the system, and I work to help them get…