Maternal Health
Pregnant women around the country faced uncertainty upon the arrival of COVID-19.
In a new AHA Innovation Dialogue, AHA Maternal and Child Health Council Chair Lara Khouri, executive vice president and chief strategy and transformation officer at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, talks with SteelSky Ventures Founding Partner Maria Velissaris about where the fund, which invests in…
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The webpage offers resources to help during the formula shortage.
California, Kentucky, Oregon and Florida extend Medicaid and CHIP postpartum coverage to 12 months.
The 20-month pilot reduced hospitalizations for pregnancy-related, life-threatening complications by 47% overall and 69% among Black women.
Through its MOMs program, Northwell Health seeks to decrease the incidence of preventable maternal morbidity and mortality in its community, especially for women of color, by focusing on care before conception, during pregnancy and through the “fourth trimester” — the 12 weeks after delivery.
U.S. births rose 1% in 2021 to about 3.7 million, the first increase since 2014.
The action gives the HHS Secretary authority to allocate all ingredients necessary to manufacture infant formula in response to the U.S. shortage.
The program currently receives just 2% of total federal spending on graduate medical education.