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Northwell Health MOMs Chat & Care Study
MOMs Chat & Care In the News
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Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, PhD
Principal Investigator of MOMs Chat & Care
Dr. Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Health System Science within the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and the Department of Medicine within the Zucker School of Medicine at Northwell Health. She is a clinical health psychologist and behavioral medicine researcher with more than a decade of experience developing, implementing and evaluating behavioral interventions for chronic disease prevention and management in clinical and community-based settings.
Did You Know?
Black women are approximately 3 times more likely to die in childbirth than White women.
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Black women with a college education are almost 2 times more likely to die in childbirth than White women with less than a high school education.
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Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) – “unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery that result in significant short- or long-term consequences to a birthing person’s health” – is two times more likely to occur among Black women than White women.
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Most cases of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) are avoidable if timely, appropriate care is provided.
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