NPR and
ProPublica teamed up for a six-month long
investigation on
maternal mortality in the U.S. Among our key findings:
- More
American women are dying of pregnancy-related complications than any
other developed country. Only in the U.S. has the rate of women who die
been rising.
- There's a hodgepodge of hospital protocols for
dealing with potentially fatal complications, allowing for treatable
complications to become lethal.
- Hospitals — including those with intensive care units for newborns — can be woefully unprepared for a maternal emergency.
- Federal
and state funding show only 6 percent of block grants for "maternal and
child health" actually go to the health of mothers.
- In the
U.S, some doctors entering the growing specialty of maternal-fetal
medicine were able to complete that training without ever spending time
in a labor-delivery unit.
Read more: U.S. Has The Worst Rate of Maternal Deaths In The Developed World : NPR
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