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Friday, December 10, 2021
Dear John,
The newest Leading To Health article looks closely at a Missouri cardio-obstetrics program working to reduce maternal death.
Leading To Health: The Maternal Mortality Crisis
In December’s Leading To Health column, author Michele Cohen Marill profiles a cardio-obstetrics program at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, in Missouri.
Cardiovascular disorders are the leading cause of maternal mortality in the US, and Black women face greater risk for pregnancy-related heart attack, stroke, peripartum cardiomyopathy, and pulmonary embolism than White women.
In December 2020, Saint Luke’s Health System launched the nation’s first prospective registry of cardiovascular disease in pregnancy in the US, starting with a pilot project in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The aim of the registry is to enroll 1,000 pregnant or postpartum women with a cardiovascular disorder and follow them for five years to assess long-term effects of pregnancy on the heart.
According to maternal-fetal medicine physician Karen Florio, "That’s one of the goals of the [registry]—to gather that data so we can better counsel women about their risk."
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Ronald Valdiserri argues that our approach to HIV can inform the larger field of complex care.
R. Brett McQueen argues that understanding the effectiveness of health service interventions
could help change the system from simply producing quality metrics to producing value for patients.
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