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Keeping Ohio moms healthy Brown-062609-18446- 0008 Maternal mortality is a growing problem in Ohio and around the country. Too many mothers are dying, particularly mothers of color. Nationally, Black mothers die at three times the rate of white mothers, and are twice as likely to suffer from life-threatening complications with their pregnancies. And as many as half of these deaths could be preventable. It’s unacceptable that this many Black women die in childbirth, in the year 2021. That’s ...

The figure – 87% – is equally shocking and heartbreaking. Of the 63 new Indiana mothers who died in 2018, 87% of their deaths were preventable. That means 55 Hoosier families were left grieving instead of celebrating milestones such as first steps or words. The sobering statistics are included in a landmark report published this month by the states Maternal Mortality Review Committee, a panel created by lawmakers two years ago to study why and under what circumstances women died during and ...