Dr. David Lagrew – Saving Mothers with Empathy & Innovation
More women in labour and new mothers die in the US than in any other high-income country. And the CDC Foundation estimates that 60% of these deaths are preventable! 60%!! In one of the most developed countries in the world.
And since 1990, only 13 countries in the world have seen a rise in maternal death rates. The US is one of them. Along with North Korea and Zimbabwe. And shockingly, since 2007, the US National Center for Health Statistics has even been publishing an official maternal mortality rate. Personally, I’m at a loss for words for this kind of indifference.
However, like in most other grim sounding situations, there is a small group of changemakers, who do what it takes to make things better in their area of work.
Recently, I read an article (link below) about Dr. David Lagrew and Stanford’s California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative. (CMQCC). This is an organization committed to ending preventable morbidity, mortality and racial disparities. The doctor and CMQCC have a single, worthy cause. A case of Empathy and innovation working at their best, to dramatically increase the number of lives saved.
Dr. David Lagrew image: source
Below is the highly recommended article on how, a noble pursuit, is achieving the seemingly impossible. We all have matters that concern or consume our thoughts. What we must realize, is that it doesn’t matter how many other people are indifferent or don’t care enough to do something about it. The real question is, do we?
Article Link: California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth
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