Q&A
Q&A on addressing the maternal morbidity crisis in NYC
0:37:20
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3 min
Council Member Amanda Farías raises concerns about the maternal morbidity crisis in NYC, particularly in Brooklyn and the Bronx. The nominees discuss potential strategies to address this issue within the Health + Hospitals system.
- Ms. Rodriguez emphasizes the importance of data analysis, community education, and addressing social determinants of health
- Dr. Espiritu stresses the need for early prenatal care, widely available pregnancy tests, and management of comorbid conditions
- Both nominees highlight the significance of community outreach and improving access to healthcare services
Amanda Farías
0:37:20
appreciate the thoughts on this.
0:37:21
I do think that as we've seen we're seeing with statistics, baby boomers obviously, they're the largest group of people that are going to be the largest group of people we will have to manage in mass.
0:37:32
Right.
0:37:32
And families are now getting smaller and smaller, and lots of people are deciding to not have extended families and have children.
0:37:39
And so we will continue to have a subset of people that will be aging in place independently, and we do have to prepare as a city for that.
0:37:49
And then I just with my the last question, And can I get any thoughts around HNH's responsibility to the maternal morbidity crisis that we have throughout the city and how any thoughts around how we should be preparing or trying to counter some of the numbers and statistics that we know some of our HNH hospitals are facing specifically in areas like Brooklyn and the Bronx?
Vanessa Rodriguez
0:38:14
I think looking at the data, getting getting more education out to the community, being able to get those that are underserved in in the health health centers or in the hospitals to get that care that is needed.
0:38:39
And nutrition.
0:38:42
All the social term social determinants of health do play a big part of, I believe, on this.
0:38:48
So if we get that under control, or at some some point, I think that that you will see more better numbers.
0:38:59
And, yeah, I mean, I'm big on education.
0:39:02
So, you know, not knowing is not gonna, you know, assist is this that person that is falling into that category?
Michael Espiritu
0:39:13
Yeah.
0:39:14
I agree with that.
0:39:15
And you're really getting people into prenatal care early, as early as possible, you know, making sure that, you know, pregnancy tests are are, you know, widely available.
0:39:28
And so that we can get mothers as early as they know that they're pregnant into prenatal care, right?
0:39:40
Especially, you know, that there's a lot of other chronic health issues that come along that that are often seen together with pregnancy that that adversely affect the outcomes.
0:39:55
Not only maternal morbidity, mortality, but also neonatal morbidity mortality, such as, you know, uncontrolled diabetes, other health issues that the more that we can get expected mothers into prenatal care early and also adequate primary care so that the other comorbid the other conditions that even may be dealing with that put them at higher risk for adverse outcomes are adequately controlled throughout pregnancy, and by the time that they give birth.
Keith Powers
0:40:40
I think it counts my aloe.
