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Clinical Care
Health Systems Start Gaining Accreditation for Health Equity Work
National Committee for Quality Assurance health equity accreditation features six standards such as organizational readiness and availability of language services.
Innovation
NIH Launches Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence Program
12 healthcare organizations across the country will create a network to develop and test new programs aimed at tackling the...
Telehealth
Cincinnati Children's, Parkview Health Expand Pediatric Telehealth Collaborative
The collaborative focuses on neurosurgery, rheumatology and drug-resistant epilepsy.
Pharma
Birth Control Pill Is Available, What About Cost and Coverage?
Many details related to cost and coverage of an OTC pill still need to be sorted out.
Clinical Care
WMCHealth Establishes New Center to Address Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
The Center for Women's Health Equity has received a $750,000 grant from New York State.
Innovation
NYC Program Helping Expectant Mothers Gets $2M to Expand Reach
The grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust will help NYC Health + Hospitals' innovative HoPE program expand its reach to...
Strategy
Abortion Bans Are Driving Off Doctors and Closing Clinics, Putting Basic Healthcare at Risk
Clinical Care
El Camino Health Maternal Mood Services Program Generating Positive Results
The Mountain View, California-based health system's initiative features a partial hospitalization program and an intensive outpatient program.
Clinical Care
Racial Maternal Health Disparity: 'We Need to Address Racism in All Forms'
The maternal mortality rate for Black women is nearly three times higher than the maternal mortality rate for White women,...
Nursing
How Nurses Can Help Curb High Maternal Mortality Rates in Black Women
Battling racism is the Rx for safer and healthier moms and babies, educator says.
Clinical Care
Federal Study Calls U.S. Stillbirth Rate 'Unacceptably High' and Recommends Action
An NIH report decried stillbirths as a 'major public health concern' and said the nation needed to do more to...
Innovation
How to Use New Technology to Make a Meaningful Connection
With the nation's maternal mortality rate rising, hospitals are turning to text messages to make a connection with at-risk mothers.