Rebecca Hart Holder, president of Reproductive Equity Now, also expressed dismay over the statistics in the report. “Because otherwise, I think that this disparity is going to only continue and may even get worse.” “I hope that finally this means that major entities in this field will reach out to our community and ask us what they can do and really engage us, and engage the disabled patients as partners in this effort,” he said. Still, he was surprised the report’s findings of just how many people with disabilities experience severe complications during labor and delivery. spiked in 2021, CDC reportsĬolin Killick, executive director of the Disability Policy Consortium, told GBH News that the medical system often fails to understand disabled patients’ needs or devalues them. Maternity homes provide support in a post-Roe world, but not without conditions Health experts and community advocates both say the disparities in the data reveal the need for officials to target structural discrimination that creates inequitable maternal health care.Īdvocates push for pregnancy care measures on Beacon Hill Rates of severe complications were significantly higher for people over the age of 40, as well as those who are Black or who have an intellectual disability. Those that met the criteria for severe maternal morbidity rose from roughly 1 out of every 200 deliveries at the start of the review period to 1 in 100 in 2020. The new report retrospectively examined just over a half-million hospital discharge records of Massachusetts residents between 20. This represents a 25% increase in that gap over the decade.” “But by 2020, it was two and a half times higher. “The most troubling finding was that for Black non-Hispanic birthing people, the rate of severe maternal morbidity in 2011 was twice that of white non-Hispanic birthing people,” said Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. The report found Black women are at the highest risk of serious complications, like heart attacks, acute kidney failure, sepsis and other potentially life-threatening conditions - and, while complications increased across all races, racial disparities only worsened during that nine-year review period. Severe complications during labor and delivery in Massachusetts nearly doubled over the past decade, according to a report released Wednesday by the state Department of Public Health.
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