Whether a woman delivers by cesarean has less to do with her health than the hospital she goes to. Case in point: Doctors Hospital of Laredo, where rates of surgical intervention during childbirth are way above the norm. Experts say something isn’t right.
The city has long struggled to make progress in improving the health of mothers and newborns. Do these shutdowns lead to worse care?
This story was produced by Ida Mojadad, a participant in the 2019 Data Fellowship, who is investigating the efficacy of the health access program Healthy SF in San Francisco.
Her other stories include:
Workers may get cash payout from medical reimbursement accounts
Millions left sitting in medi
The data tell a disturbing story about how the U.S. has failed to invest in the health and future of some of the most vulnerable among us.
Hospitals and insurance companies use a variety of algorithms to calculate risk, but they don’t always yield equitable results.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and a summer of wildfire smoke, children living in East and West Oakland had a hard time breathing.
San Francisco health officials are looking at how to improve access, outreach as untapped funds reach $409 million.
A doctor who cares for underserved patients finds her efforts are often rendered useless by systemic barriers to care.
A review of thousands of pages of inspection records, incident reports, complaints and emails shows licensors are reluctant to step in when youth facilities have faced troubling accusations of rampant child abuse.
Indigenous burial traditions were already threatened by economic pressures and changing cultures. Then the pandemic struck.
