maternal mortality

Groups like Central Florida Birth Network and AdventHealth are looking to change how Black mothers are treated, as Black maternal morbidities remain high in Florida.

Florida’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee was created two decades ago to investigate why Florida moms are dying during and after pregnancy – and to stop preventable deaths from happening in the first place. But the secretive panel housed within the Florida Department of Health hadn’t publicly released any annual findings in years until a Florida Trib reporter asked agency officials last week about the committee’s apparent lack of action.

The organization works to combat the maternal health crisis of people of color by raising funds and awareness surrounding the need for care.

Black women are nearly three times more likely than white women to die of pregnancy-related causes in the U.S. To mark Black Maternal Health Week, WLRN spoke to two local doctors about the causes of this disparity in health care outcomes and how to address them.

More than half of these deaths occur well after the mom leaves the hospital. To save lives, mothers need more support in the "fourth trimester, that time after the baby is born," one researcher says.

For decades, women in Florida who give birth and don’t have health insurance have been eligible for two months of Medicaid. Now, a group of lawmakers in the state House of Representatives from both parties stood together and said they want to extend the 60 days of Medicaid coverage after birth.

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In the U.S. more than 700 women die each year while pregnant or shortly after giving birth, and an alarming number of them are black. According to the…