Tag: Maternal Mortality
Region VII Spring Update: Improving Lives in Rural Areas
Greetings Region VII CNMs and CMs!
In a prior Quickening (July 2018), I mentioned my first-hand experience working in a rural health clinic in California where there was minimal access to women’s health care prior to CNM presence. Here is some of the work being...
A Seat at the Table: DC’s Work on the Maternal Mortality Crisis
In the shadow of the US Capitol, women are currently dying in childbirth at alarming rates. As a recent Washington Post article stated, DC mothers are twice as likely to die because of pregnancy as the average American woman. About 41 women in...