MARILYN BERCHIE-GIALAMAS

Trinity Maternal Wellness

Marilyn Berchie-Gialamas, DNP, CRNP, NP-C, CBS, brings comprehensive maternal healthcare directly into the homes of mothers across Maryland as a nurse practitioner with Trinity Maternal Wellness. Her in-home postpartum visits extend well beyond routine check-ins, encompassing individualized clinical assessment, lactation and newborn support, mental health screening, chronic disease management and intensive care coordination. By meeting mothers in their own homes, she confronts the often unseen barriers created by social determinants of health and ensures that high-risk mothers receive dignified, culturally responsive and evidence-based care.

Berchie-Gialamas partners with community-based organizations such as Baltimore Healthy Start to reach mothers disproportionately affected by maternal morbidity and mortality. Her collaborative model bridges clinical practice and community trust so that vulnerable families are not lost within fragmented systems of care.

As founder and executive director of Trinity Maternal Wellness, a Maryland nonprofit dedicated to perinatal and postpartum support, she has built programming that offers free support groups, wellness education and essential maternal and infant supplies, removing financial barriers that can compromise maternal well-being. She designed these initiatives to uplift families who might otherwise navigate pregnancy and postpartum in isolation.

Her work also reaches the academic and research arenas. As an assistant professor at Morgan State University, she prepares the next generation of nurses to deliver compassionate, competent and advocacy-driven maternal healthcare, instilling clinical rigor, cultural humility and a commitment to equity. As a co-investigator with the university’s Center for Maternal and Family Health, she contributes to research examining maternal health disparities and translates those findings into evidence-informed solutions.

Berchie-Gialamas describes her work through the mothers she has served. One returned home after delivery with severe warning signs of preeclampsia and symptoms of postpartum depression. During an in-home visit, she initiated emergency protocols, coordinated readmission and mobilized childcare and transportation so the mother could receive treatment before a life-threatening emergency occurred. Another mother arrived at a Trinity Maternal Wellness support group withdrawn and isolated, having recently relocated without family support and struggling financially. Berchie-Gialamas coordinated immediate access to maternal and infant supplies and referred her to Baltimore Healthy Start for year-round case management. For her, clinical excellence, advocacy and coordination are inseparable.