maternal mortality

Rides to Care offers free rides to medical appointments for pregnant Detroiters, and up to a year post-partum. Caretakers of children under a year old are also eligible.

The SOS Maternity program looks to tackle maternal and infant mortality from multiple angles, both medical and structural.

New bills in the Michigan Legislature are working to identify and address racism and bias within maternal health care.

A new free-standing birthing center is expected to open its doors in April of 2024. Led by midwives, Birth Detroit aims to provide a safe and culturally relevant “full care experience from period to period” for expecting families.

“When you rate 76 out of 83 counties, you have some of the highest risk population," said Christina Harrington, the Saginaw County Health Department health officer.

The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.

The infant mortality rate spiked during the pandemic. This reality is especially true for Black women in Detroit. Today, why this is happening, and what can be done to make a change.

Hypertension is the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths in the state. So Detroit paramedics are doing blood pressure checks with high-risk moms in their homes.

The study found that to a certain extent, income is protective: the highest-income Americans living in California had the lowest rates of infant and maternal mortality. But disparity in outcomes by race persists even for the highest-income Black moms and babies.

A research team led by a University of Michigan medical professor found that hospital deaths during childbirth actually fell by more than half from 1995 through 2015. But it also found that a majority of pregnancy-related deaths now occur either before or after birth.