Typically an ambulance arrives to find a person in mid-crisis and requiring immediate care. But a new approach called community paramedicine aims to prevent emergencies in the first place.

The executive order tells state agencies they must provide pregnant workers with temporary accommodations like longer break times, the ability to sit or stand for comfort, and a private space for expressing breast milk.

Medicaid coverage for Hoosier women during their pregnancy typically lasts until 60 days after they give birth, but that was extended through the most recent federal COVID-19 relief package.

A bill telling pregnant workers they can ask for workplace accommodations without retaliation is one step away from becoming law after it passed a final vote in the General Assembly.

Legislation is inching forward that tells employers they must respond to pregnant workers when they submit written requests for accommodations, but doesn't require them to grant them.

Legislation to allow pregnant women to ask employers for accommodations at work was heard in the Indiana House on Tuesday, but critics say its too weak and doesnt actually change anything.

Pregnant workers could ask for workplace accommodations under a new bill headed to the House floor, but employers wouldnt be required to grant them.

For many mothers giving birth during the pandemic, pregnancy has not gone as planned. To learn about these experiences, a pair of researchers is collecting pandemic birth stories from across the country.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit marginalized families hard, Healthy Start and similar organizations that provide maternal and infant care are seeing a spike in calls.

Dr. Chaniece Wallace's death highlights a stark racial disparity in maternal mortality rates. Nationwide, Black women are at least twice as likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth or within a year of pregnancy as white women.