“Over the past several years, The Bronx, like other parts of the country, has seen the rate of Black maternal mortality increase at a disproportionate rate, as compared to that of other communities. The Bronx’s mortality rate is higher than the rates for the city and the state at large, even larger is the rate for Black women than for women of other races. This is not a new problem, yet we need new solutions to create immediate and long-term change to protect and serve all the people in our state. These solutions must incorporate ways to address multiple stakeholders: parties who have already been hurt by the system; parties who are within positions of power, to call out and rectify both our best practices, as well as our complicity or active participation in the harmful parts of the system; and to build a sustainable new culture and practice of medicine with Black and Brown communities at the forefront.”
