Experts and the Biden administration acknowledge that addressing maternal mortality means understanding the effects imposed on expectant mothers by racism, housing policy, policing, climate change and pollution.
As part of a major push by the Biden administration to address the nation's maternal health crisis, senior officials have traveled the country for the past year, talking to midwives, doulas and people who have given birth about their experiences. They've held summits at the White House.
"Improving maternal health is not just going to be in the hospital setting. It's not just going to be in our outpatient clinics," said Laxmi Mehta, a cardiologist at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and an advocate of teams that manage cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of maternal death. "This is all hands on deck."The White House says it is taking a "whole-of-government" approach that goes beyond health care delivery solutions.
She was already nervous. Black maternal mortality and morbidity had become headline news, and fears of becoming a casualty of the nation's maternal health crisis accompanied her to the appointment. So when the doctor didn't mention that her age put her at risk, she did. Perkins's new doctor allowed her to be a patient first and not a doctor having to monitor her own care, even as she developed gestational diabetes and needed a cervical stitch to keep her cervix from opening too early in pregnancy. And her daughter was in a breech position and needed to be delivered by C-section.
"Given what we have to offer people in terms of health care, it just makes sense" that maternal deaths would increase following the Supreme Court ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion, said Edward Hills, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Meharry Medical College. The past 2 1/2 years have forced the nation to reckon with the ways entrenched racial inequality is evident in various realms. And Brooks-LaSure, whose agency provides health insurance to more than 100 million people, is calling for measures that go beyond seminars addressing implicit bias.
She applauds the plan to invest in rural maternal care and extend Medicaid postpartum coverage, noting about one-third of maternal deaths occur one week to a year after pregnancy. Consider hemorrhage carts, which are stocked with tools and medications to stop a leading cause of maternal mortality and morbidity. Scott said while having a hemorrhage cart is crucial, it's not enough if complaints of headaches and double vision have been ignored for weeks.
And Rice is confident that some of the policy initiatives designed to improve maternal outcomes, such as extending Medicaid postpartum coverage, will endure beyond the Biden administration.
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