内容摘要：“She just had no chance, getting left locked in a stall and her owners evacuating and just leaving them all there,” Bagan said.

“She just had no chance, getting left locked in a stall and her owners evacuating and just leaving them all there,” Bagan said.

Keener said she’s gratified that Coles would not be giving birth prematurely this time.“You made it to term – yay!” she told her client.

Coles smiled. “My body can do it!”While programs like Healthy Start focus on individual patient needs, other efforts manage the overall quality of medical care.California has the lowest maternal mortality in the nation — 10.5 per 100,000 live births, less than half the national rate. But that wasn’t the case before it created a “maternal quality care collaborative” in 2006.

Founded at Stanford University’s medical school in partnership with the state, it brings together people from every hospital with a maternity unit to share best practices on how to deal with issues that could lead to maternal injury or death, like high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and sepsis.“When you look at the rate of maternal death in the United States compared to California, they basically ran neck-and-neck until it was established,” said Dr. Amanda Williams, clinical innovation adviser for the collaborative. “At that time they totally separated and California started going down. The rest of the country started going up.”

Denise Jones speaks with Dr. Allison Garnett during a prenatal appointment at the Oklahoma State University obstetrics and gynecology clinic. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

Denise Jones speaks with Dr. Allison Garnett during a prenatal appointment at the Oklahoma State University obstetrics and gynecology clinic. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)Health departments across the country have said they’ve laid off employees after the Trump administration began to claw back the money in late March.

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.WASHINGTON (AP) — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the

his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20.