Posted on Jul 14, 2022
Chicago birthing center catered to Black Americans aims to mitigate childbirth complications
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Women in America are more likely to die during or soon after pregnancy than anywhere else in the developed world. And the maternal death rate is nearly three times higher for Black women than white women.
Here & Now's Chris Bentley reports on one Chicago midwife who's trying to build her own birth center in a neighborhood where maternal healthcare options are on the decline.
Here & Now's Chris Bentley reports on one Chicago midwife who's trying to build her own birth center in a neighborhood where maternal healthcare options are on the decline.
Chicago birthing center catered to Black Americans aims to mitigate childbirth complications
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Worst in the developed world and some want to drive us further back..... suppose that makes sense to them but no thinking person!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
...""We are going to have more people who are forced into pregnancy and therefore more people who are in the risk pool for experiencing an adverse outcome,” she says. “So we are going to see undoubtedly that our mortality rate is going to continue to rise.”
Maternal and infant mortality rates are highest up to a year after birth, and 20 states including Illinois recently extended postpartum coverage under Medicaid from two months to one year. Most of PCC’s clients are on Medicaid, and Valrie-Logan expects many of hers at the South Side Birth Center will be, too. Medicaid reimbursements often aren’t enough to support birth centers and other health clinics in low-income areas, so Valrie-Logan plans to operate her center as a nonprofit and pursue grant money.
In June the Biden Administration put out what it called a "blueprint for addressing the maternal health crisis.” It called on Congress to make more available to people who want to give birth outside of a hospital. Democrats in the House and Senate have sponsored bills to increase funding for maternal health care. If passed, they could give a boost to birth centers like Valrie-Logan's."
...""We are going to have more people who are forced into pregnancy and therefore more people who are in the risk pool for experiencing an adverse outcome,” she says. “So we are going to see undoubtedly that our mortality rate is going to continue to rise.”
Maternal and infant mortality rates are highest up to a year after birth, and 20 states including Illinois recently extended postpartum coverage under Medicaid from two months to one year. Most of PCC’s clients are on Medicaid, and Valrie-Logan expects many of hers at the South Side Birth Center will be, too. Medicaid reimbursements often aren’t enough to support birth centers and other health clinics in low-income areas, so Valrie-Logan plans to operate her center as a nonprofit and pursue grant money.
In June the Biden Administration put out what it called a "blueprint for addressing the maternal health crisis.” It called on Congress to make more available to people who want to give birth outside of a hospital. Democrats in the House and Senate have sponsored bills to increase funding for maternal health care. If passed, they could give a boost to birth centers like Valrie-Logan's."
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I just love how all these facts surface now instead of prior to the SCOTUS ruling...Oh by the way Abortion is still legal...it's just up to the states and their citizens to decide where it should have been constitutionally all along.
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