Patient Safety and Ethics

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COVID-19's toll on more than 1,000 Mississippi's chicken plant employees

This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
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'Promotoras' a lifeline for the undocumented, sick and scared through COVID

This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
Certified nurse midwife Annie Leone talks with her patient, Melissa Woodfin. Prenatal care visits with the midwives at Holy Fami

Part 3: Filling the gap

Much of rural Texas is a maternity care desert with few doctors to deliver babies. In some other states, licensed midwives fill in to handle uncomplicated births. But roadblocks limit their practice here.

Women's and Maternal Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics
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Part 2: More than ‘a little snip’

Two Texas hospitals performed episiotomies at rates four to six times the recommended level last year. But women giving birth should know: You have the final say.

Women's and Maternal Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics