Dr. Kate Westmoreland was leading a pediatric cancer research program in Malawi, Africa when she found out the daughter she was pregnant with would be born with Down syndrome. After moving back to the U.S., having her daughter Izabel and going through a variety of treatments, she realized the difficulty of all the steps in the medical system for families seeking care. “I was just trying to figure out everything that I could — like, ‘What is the innovations waiver, what is CAPC/C… what are all these new terms and how can I figure out all the things I need to do to take care of her,” she recalled to 97.9 The Hill. “As a pediatrician in the system, I was like, ‘Wow, I’ve got to do something after I’ve learned how to navigate the system and learned so much more about down syndrome through all the contacts…’ I just wanted to find a way that I could give this back to new parents and help walk them though those first years in the journey.” On Friday, Westmoreland’s vision formally comes to ...