Safe deliveries no guarantee for Tennessee moms-to-be
Mother Selden Sarinoglu fed newborn son, Hall Aydin Sarinoglu, in May 2022. Hall was born more than a month premature. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
A new report examines alarming trends in Tennessee’s recent maternal death rates. And deems that more than 3 out of 4 of those deaths were preventable.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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