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An American Hospital Association resource strategies to foster equitable practices in maternal care at the patient and organizational level. The , based on an AHA-dialogue with hospital leaders on examining best practices for equitable maternity care, also describes how New York City Health + Hospitals and Providence Swedish Hospital in Renton, Wash., connect interested families with doulas, and how a University of Chicago Medicine program treats and manages postpartum hypertension. Separately, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week the U.S. infant mortality rate rose 2% in 2021 to 19,928. Infants of Black women had the highest mortality rate by race at 10.55 per 1,000 live births. (AHA News , 9/12/23)