Family building, parenting and midlife health

To support your wellbeing, we offer benefits to help you build and raise your family and navigate your midlife health.

Maven is your personal guide to family building, parenting and midlife health—available to you and your eligible dependents at no cost, regardless if you are enrolled in a Stryker medical plan.

Life is filled with so many incredible chapters, and Maven can help you through them all—from trying to expand your family and welcoming a little one to raising a child and navigating midlife health changes, like menopause or low testosterone. Get the support you and your loved ones deserve with access to hard-to-find specialists, articles, videos and more.

Maven is here for every symptom, feeling and health goal with expert answers you can trust.

Services include:

• Video visits and messaging with top-rated specialists: Get helpful guidance from award-winning family health specialists across 30+ specialties—all from the comfort of your home.
• Answers, day or night: Virtual support from a personalized Care Advocate who can offer advice and resources that can help, even at 2 a.m.
• Expert articles, community forums, videos and on-demand classes: Scroll clinically accurate resources that cover mental health, sleep, nutrition, wellness, symptom relief and more.

Get started today

Join Maven today to access 850+ top-rated specialists and daily resources.

• Register at mavenclinic.com/join/stryker. You will need your email address, date of birth and full name to get started.
• Take a look at the Maven FAQs.

We are proud to offer our U.S. employees the Milk Stork program, which helps support working moms during business travel by providing a no-fuss solution to pumping while traveling. Milk Stork has helped over 40,000 working moms solve logistical and cooling challenges while on the road.

How it works

Milk Stork is a breast-milk delivery service for business traveling moms, and provides a no-fuss solution that refrigerates, express ships and helps deliver breast milk home to your baby. Milk Stork provides multiple easy-to-use options to choose from, so you can pick what fits your nursing and travel schedules best. You can pump according to your regular nursing schedule, and then activate the cooling unit in your Milk Stork cooler (instructions included) to pack your refrigerated breast milk. From there, you can ship through FedEx overnight or carry your cooler home with you in a reusable tote provided to you by Milk Stork. Best of all, this benefit is available at no cost to you as long as you are travelling on company business.

Learn more

• You can also use Milk Stork if you travel internationally. Read this brochure to learn more.
• To place an order and check an order status, visit milkstork.com/stryker and log in with your Stryker email address and password. If you are already logged on to the Stryker network, you will automatically be assigned into the site. You can find further instructions on how to place the order on the site.
• To learn more about how Milk Stork works, watch the brief video below or read a brochure.

For more information, contact Milk Stork at info@milkstork.com or call 510 356 0221.

If you're considering planning or building your family, you have access to Maven for 24/7 virtual support. You can use Maven for free to book video consultations or chat with providers spanning 30+ specialties, including OB-GYNs, fertility awareness educators, adoption and surrogacy coaches and more. Plus, you get personalized resources for your family building journey.

What this means for UHC and Surest members

If you are enrolled in a UHC or Surest medical plan, Maven and UHC's/Surest's Fertility Solutions Plus program work together to create a connected experience and help you get high-quality guidance and care:

• Maven as your front door: Start in Maven to get 24/7 education, coaching, and support around your fertility and family-building options. Your Maven Care Advocate can help you understand your benefits and determine whether fertility treatment, preservation, or another path (like adoption or surrogacy) might be right for you.
• Seamless connection to Fertility Solutions Plus: Maven coordinates with the Fertility Solutions Plus program, which gives you access to experienced fertility nurse case managers who can help you find approved in-network clinics and answer questions about coverage, treatment options, and next steps in your fertility journey.
• Ongoing Maven support at every step: While Fertility Solutions Plus helps you navigate treatment and coverage, Maven continues to provide unlimited virtual consultations with fertility specialists, and other providers, along with expert-vetted content, classes and community support to guide you through each stage of your journey.
  
  To learn more, check out the UHC flyer or Surest flyer for additional information and how to access services. 

To register for Maven, go to mavenclinic.com/join/stryker to get started today.

Whether you're becoming a new parent or adding another child to your family, it's natural to feel overwhelmed and stressed. Through Lyra Health, you have free access to trusted parenting information, tips and resources. Tap into self-led wellness tools anytime, anywhere.

You can also review and book an appointment with a high-quality coach or therapist. You and your household family members and dependents get 10 free mental health sessions per person, per year. The Lyra team is available 24/7 to help you connect to the best care.

All medical plans at Stryker cover expenses for hospital stays or birthing centers and obstetrics provided by a doctor or certified nurse-midwife for pregnancy, childbirth or related complications. You may also receive additional maternity benefits through your medical provider.

You also have access to Maven, the personalized health platform made to help you and your family navigate maternity and newborn care. This includes:

• Unlimited video consultations and messaging with award-winning specialists such as:
  • Labor and delivery specialists
  • Prenatal nutrition coaches
  • Prenatal and postpartum doulas
  • Lactation consultants
  • Pediatric sleep coaches
• 24/7 support from a dedicated Care Advocate and Care team
• Expert articles, videos, and on-demand classes

Get started at mavenclinic.com/join/stryker or download the Maven Clinic app.

For UnitedHealthcare (UHC) and Surest members, the partnership with Maven provides a complete maternity care experience throughout pregnancy and postpartum.

• UHC members: To learn more, check out this flyer, contact UHC at 800-387-7508 or visit myuhc.com.
• Surest members: To learn more, check out this flyer, contact Surest Member Services at 844-530-0139 or visit benefits.surest.com.

Kaiser Permanente offers a host of resources for expectant parents, including helpful newsletters, checklists and videos, as well as a 24-hour nurseline. You can also use Kaiser’s website to search for classes in your area, and to manage your pregnancy care, including emailing your doctor, making appointments and getting test results. For more information, read this flyer or visit the Kaiser website pregnancy page.

HMSA offers a Pregnancy and Postpartum Support Program which pairs you with your own maternity nurse who’ll provide education and counseling in addition to your regular prenatal care. This program is voluntary and available at no cost to HMSA members. For more information visit the HMSA pregnancy support website.

Neonatal resources

In addition to Maven's services, UHC and Surest members also have access to the Neonatal Resource Services Program. If a NICU admission occurs, a nurse will reach out directly to the parent(s) to enroll in the program. A nurse stays engaged with the parent(s) throughout the NICU stay and helps to ensure that the family is ready for discharge, supporting the family through one year following discharge. Questions on the program should be directed to UHC or Surest by calling the phone number on the back of your ID card.