When Katie Chubb was pregnant she wanted to have her baby at a birth center, but there was no local option. Now she’s trying to open one herself. She has community support, but not from the hospitals.
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RI Kids Count report: Mothers and children of color at risk
Nearly half of all children born in Rhode Island in 2020 were children of color. And the health and well-being of those children and their birth mothers are “at risk,’’ according to a report released Monday afternoon by Rhode Island Kids Count. Racial and ethnic health disparities begin prior to conception with maternal insurance coverage […]
