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Maternal Mortality Review Committee reports decline in pregnancy-related deaths for 2023, highlights mental health and hemorrhage
Summary
The Idaho Maternal Mortality Review Committee told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that pregnancy-related deaths fell in 2023 and that mental-health conditions and hemorrhage were the most common pregnancy-related causes identified in that year’s reviews.
The Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC) reported its 2023 findings to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, documenting a decline in Idaho’s pregnancy-related mortality ratio and recommending continued work on access to treatment for pregnant and postpartum women.
Oren Duffin, program director for the Health Professions Bureau and executive officer for the MMRC, told the committee that 13 cases from calendar year 2023 were provided to the MMRC for investigation and 11 met the committee’s inclusion criteria — defined as the death of a woman from any cause while pregnant or within one year of pregnancy. Of those 11 pregnancy-associated deaths, the committee determined five were pregnancy related and six were pregnancy associated but not pregnancy related.
The report found that Idaho’s pregnancy-related mortality ratio declined from…
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