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Washington's death sparked protests at the medical center and brought attention to the wider issue of Black maternal mortality in the United States. [5]New York state senators Julia Salazar and Gustavo Rivera co-sponsored bill S8729 that would require hospitals to release statistics related to childbirth complications, fetal loss, and maternity related injuries.
In the states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, and California, the journal article "Black-white disparities in maternal in-hospital mortality according to teaching and black-serving hospital status" discovered that between the years of 1995 to 2000, out of every 100,000 patients in a hospital, 11.5 black women died during pregnancy, and 4.8 white ...
The maternal mortality rate of Black women in 2021 was 2.6 times higher than the rate of white women, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Chaniece Wallace (1990 − October 22, 2020), [1] a black woman and physician, died at 30 years of age from complications of pregnancy two days after the birth of her daughter. Her death is seen as preventable and is viewed in the context of high rates of maternal mortality in the United States, particularly among the African American ...
Nick Rowley, an attorney representing the Johnson family, said the federal agency had outlined "steps in the right direction," but amid "this epidemic of Black women dying in healthcare, dying in ...
Heather Wilson lost her daughter — and nearly her life — the first time she gave birth. The Virginia Beach resident developed a potentially fatal condition and her blood pressure skyrocketed ...
A national study examined the death rates from pregnancy in white and black women. The study found that for five particular pregnancy problems, the death risk was 2.4 to 3.3 times higher among black women. Preeclampsia, placenta abruptio, placenta previa, and postpartum hemorrhage were among them (Howell, 2018).
In the United States, approximately 17 mothers in every 100,000 pregnancies die, with three Black mothers dying for every white mother, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.