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Pssst... Nikki Haley... we have some data you may be interested in...
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You and Bernie Sanders are right: America’s health-care system is expensive. Yet, U.S. moms die from childbirth at rates higher than other developed countries. That includes Finland, which has a maternal mortality rate of 3.8, compared to 26.4 in the U.S. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Each year, 50,000 women are severely injured in childbirth in America. About 700 mothers die. The best estimates say that half of these deaths could be prevented and half the injuries reduced or eliminated with better care. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…
USA TODAY obtained more than a half-million pages of internal hospital quality records and examined the cases of more than 150 women whose deliveries went terribly wrong. Here's what we found. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…
Many states blame moms or mention social issues when recommending ways to cut maternal mortality, aggravating experts. One of Michigan’s suggestions was that landlords and government regulators make sure women’s homes have smoke detectors. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
USA TODAY also found that more than half the states in the U.S. haven’t scrutinized clinical failures that occur during childbirth – or haven’t studied mothers’ deaths at all. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Maternity hospitals’ childbirth complication rates are secret in the U.S. USA TODAY obtained rates for nearly 1,000 maternity hospitals in 13 states where its journalists have gained access to records documenting patients’ care. usatoday.com/story/news/inv…
The data reveal wide variation from hospital to hospital. The analysis of 7 million patients’ records found women suffered life-threatening complications at rates at least double the national norm at nearly one in eight U.S. hospitals. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Search for a hospital to find its rate compared to state and national medians. usatoday.com/maternal-morta…
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