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Danielle Venton
Reporter/producer
Reporter, writer, radio producer covering science, health and the environment. Loves backpacking and writing with fountain pens.
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A hospital in Marin County, California, has successfully lowered its Cesarean-section rates by employing nurse midwives. As KRCB’s Danielle Venton reports, duplicating those results around the state is going to require some creative thinking.
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C-sections are still considered way too common at a majority of hospitals throughout the country. In this first of a two-part series, 2015 California fellow Danielle Venton looks at how a hospital in Marin County has successfully tackled the problem.
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If you are a Californian having a baby for the first time, choose your hospital wisely. You might even wish to move. A recent report from the California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Taskforce revealed alarming discrepancies in outcomes for low-risk pregnancies at high-performing and low-perform