MMHLA took the lead in gathering 40 like-minded organizations to ask Congress to support maternal metnal health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the letter to House Appropriations leadership HERE. The current pandemic has created significant stress and anxiety for pregnant [...]
Maternal Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Virtual Congressional Briefing May 19, 2020 1:30 -- 2:30 pm EDT The pandemic is impacting mental health, especially of new mothers and mothers-to-be, with a disproportionate impact on women of color [...]
UPDATE ON COVID-19 & MATERNAL HEALTH April 3, 2020 MMHLA'S NEW CORONAVIRUS WEBPAGE MMHLA's CORONAVIRUS webpage is a one-stop shop for information about COVID-19 and its impact on maternal health and maternal mental health. View Newsletter [...]
Here’s a roundup of information and resources regarding coronavirus and maternal health. Learn More
Black mothers are dying at THREE TIMES the rate of white women in the United States. To address this important issue, members of Congress, led by the Black Maternal Health Caucus, have introduced a series of bills [...]
Approximately 700 women die each year in the United States during pregnancy or the first year following. What’s going on? Approximately a dozen studies and reports have been published since 2016 in an effort to understand what [...]
Since 2003, states have been incrementally adding check-boxes related to pregnancy on death certificates to indicate whether a woman had been pregnant within the last year. As of 2018, all 50 states (and DC) utilize pregnancy checkboxes. [...]
Read More The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has added two new measures to the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set ( HEDIS ®) to assess whether pregnant and postpartum women are screened for depression and provided care. [...]
Read the full letter - PDF MMHLA — along with scores of organizations supporting mothers and infants — signed on to a letter to Congress requesting expanding the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood (MIECHV) Program. [...]
The MONA (Marce of North America) conference -- held in Chapel Hill, NC in late October -- brought together 500+ experts in the field of maternal mental health for three days chock-full of outstanding presentations, thoughtful discussions, [...]
