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Tressie McMillan Cottom was four months pregnant when she was rushed to the hospital for extreme pain and bleeding. Cottom said she arrived and the hospital staff made her sit in a waiting room for about 30 minutes as she cried and bled on a chair.
Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. American Lung Association to Reduce Asthma-related ER and Hospital Visits for Communities Most Burdened by Asthma April 8, 2021 GMT American Lung Association logo (PRNewsfoto/American Lung Association) CHICAGO, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In the U.S., 24.8 million people are living with asthma, including 5.5 million children. Without proper management of the disease, asthma symptoms can worsen and result in asthma attacks, emergency department and hospital visits. While asthma affects all people, the...
Can the Maternal CARE Act fail moms? 37 Shares In 2018, then-Senator Kamala Harris introduced the Maternal CARE (Care Access and Reducing Emergencies) Act and added the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2020. Collectively, both pieces of legislation would create a task force to study sobering disparities in medical care based on race, combat racial implicit biases in the medical field, and close gaps in access to quality medical care for pregnant African American mothers. The impetus was the alarming data on maternal mortality reported by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in 2018...