A recent study by the CDC suggests that approximately 84.2% of postpartum deaths are preventable. When the CDC viewed the statistics to determine whether a death was preventable, the CDC asked was “there at least some chance of the death being averted by one or more reasonable changes to patient, community, provider, facility, and/or systems factors.”

A recent report from VMG Health, a healthcare strategy and transaction company, suggests that a delay in progressing medical malpractice cases during the pandemic is leading to an increase in medical malpractice activity and is increasing the costs of medical malpractice cases to the hospital in 2022.