The District has the fourth-highest fetal mortality rate in the U.S.
Children & Families
As conversations on how to improve birth and maternal outcomes grow, birth workers like doulas are rising in popularity. The third installment of The Long Road to Maternal Care series breaks down what this profession does and what it means for it to be covered under Medicaid in Nevada.
More than half of Nevada counties do not have a hospital that provides routine labor and delivery and is without an OB-GYN. The first story to kick off the series: The Long Road to Maternal Care.
There were a handful of moments when I thought my reporting project on California’s child care shortage was going to fall apart. These lessons helped me avert disaster.
California’s ‘failure to protect’ law allows child welfare agencies to take kids from households scarred by domestic violence. Advocates say the separation can worsen a family’s trauma.
The reduction, paired with the end of pandemic relief money and high rates of inflation, has domestic violence advocates scrambling to adequately fund the groups that keep one of the state’s most vulnerable populations safe.
Inside Wellpath's rise: The nation's largest private jail health care provider is facing dozens of lawsuits and a federal probe. Is profit overshadowing inmate care?
Two reporters share insights and tips from their in-depth reporting on America’s maternity care crisis and the unequal harms suffered by pregnant women of color and their children.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel undertook an analysis of homicides related to domestic, family and intimate partner violence in Milwaukee County from 2016 to 2022.