Preliminary knowledge present Virginia’s maternal mortality fee greater than doubled between 2018 and 2020, a pointy enhance encouraging state officers to start out doing ground-level interviews to determine what’s driving pregnancy-related deaths.
Based on early numbers from Virginia’s Maternal Mortality Evaluate Staff, the state’s maternal mortality fee in 2018 was 37.1 deaths per 100,000 instances. In 2020, that determine rose to 86.6 deaths per 100,000 instances, stated Dr. Ryan Diduk-Smith, director of the Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner’s Division