Choices Birthing Center hosts Black Maternal Health Week events
Mothers LaDawna Jones (left) and Troyisha Jones hold their newborn baby Mylle Jones at Choices - Memphis Center for Reproductive Health on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Black women make up the majority of patients at Choices’ freestanding birthing center in Midtown, whose midwifery practice has been delivering babies since 2017.
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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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