Clinic’s new OB-GYN program hopes to cut soaring NC maternal death rate; could offer statewide model

Lisa Vendeland, an OB-GYN, has witnessed dozens of stillbirths and maternal deaths. When giving birth to her own child, all she wanted was, “to have a live baby and I don’t want to die doing it,” she wrote in an op-ed. Vendeland now heads the new OB-GYN program at Advance Community Health in Raleigh, a clinic that launched Jan. 23.

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