Maternal mortality rates are higher for rural women of color. Data, charts, ... This map shows how close or far away different places in the U.S. are to the nearest hospital with a labor and ...

We know that Black women are up to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women.

Why maternal mortality is so hard to measure — and why the problem may get worse “We can’t let ourselves get distracted by discrepancies around data and distract ourselves from how poorly we ...

In 2021, adjusted maternal death rates peaked at 18.86 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births after consistently remaining between 6.75 and 10.24 since 2000, and then dropped back down to 10.23 ...

In their Oct. 21 letter to state surgeon general Dr. Diana Ramos, the advocacy groups said that the maternal health blueprint acknowledged racial inequities in maternal mortality rates, but didn ...

"The View" host Sara Haines came with receipts on Friday, calling out how much abortions have increased since Roe v. Wade was overturned ...

New data shows maternal mortality numbers are dropping for all women except Black women, who have a much higher chance of dying while or after they are pregnant both in New York and around the nation.

“It was intoxicating,” she said. About 141 new mothers died from pregnancy in Georgia from 2020 to 2022. But maternal mortality is a bellwether for larger problems, such as lack of general ...

The maternal mortality rate in 2020 was 27.7 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to 17.2 in 2019. With COVID-related deaths excluded, the rate was 24.2.

North Carolina’s maternal mortality rate saw a 100% increase from 2019 to 2021 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

State health department data on maternal deaths indicate that Indiana’s average maternal mortality rate for the years 2015-2019 is about 52 deaths per 100,000 births — more than twice the most ...