“We all think we’re giving great care and we are treating everybody equally,” said Dr. Elliott Main, medical director of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative. “The data doesn’t support that.” , Main said, too often respond defensively instead of using the data to evaluate their care practices.
The analysis tallied complications at 1,027 hospitals using a formula developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – the same one used for years by academics, big insurance companies, hospitals and others to track and study women harmed from childbirth. Touro participates in two programs that calculate rates this way, one run by Blue Cross Blue Shield, another by the state of Louisiana.
But the list also includes community hospitals in cities, suburbs and small towns where many routine births typically occur. “It’s a valid point, but it’s not a point that hospitals can use to simply not do better,” said Elizabeth Dawes Gay, a founding co-director of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, which advocates for racial justice in women's health. “They also have to be willing to change, to look at their practices, their policies, their providers and ask: Where are we failing women?”
Touro’s rate was 2.8 percent, or about 360 of more than 13,000 women who delivered there from 2014 to 2017. The next highest rates in the city were Ochsner Baptist Medical Center and Tulane Lakeside Hospital – two other hospitals that also take on risky births. Touro Infirmary is known to many in New Orleans by its longtime slogan that it’s the place “Where babies come from.” It is among hospitals where USA TODAY found women are suffering severe childbirth complications at twice the rate of other hospitals.A short walk from the historic St. Charles Streetcar Line, Touro Infirmary has been a cornerstone of health care in New Orleans for more than 165 years. It has long marketed itself as the place “Where babies come from.
During her stay at Touro, West developed a complex set of symptoms. Along with the seizure, odd blood test results and problems with her kidneys led a doctor to diagnose a rare blood disorder. The nurse ran through five doctors before she found someone who would address West’s blood pressure: a doctor learning internal medicine skills through one of Touro’s training programs. Even when told the latest reading was 175/94, the resident didn’t react as if West’s blood pressure was an emergency. Renata McClendon is tortured by thoughts that she somehow didn’t do more to ensure better care for her sister Felicia West. “I feel like,...
CrockettDebra How is this happening in 2019? IDontUnderstand
Too many vaccines
It has to do with obesity, not discrimination.
Are we still calling it the developed world?
11,000,000 babies aborted. A great sin.
Is this profiling?
Funny how doctors and medical staff walk around with a chip on their shoulder like they're better than everyone but the reality is Healthcare in the United States isn't that great.
Oh.... “In New York City, thousands more black babies are aborted each year than born alive.” Good thing we have PP, we get to kill the babies first.
Don’t you have that backwards? The U.S is the most dangerous place for black babies, newly conceived, close to Birth or already BORN! And not exclusive to black babies either, ANY baby! Compliments of a Government that is working for YOU + to kill your Babies! Hitler wld B Proud!
Maybe they should take better care of themselves
Due to abortion laws black people are killed more than any disease or crime statistic. Add that to this news and cry.
Good thing I’m past the Breeding age!
oh really this is suck