Why is Maternal Mortality Growing in the United States? by The DailyNurse Podcast published on 2018-06-21T22:13:08Z According to the CDC “Report from Nine Maternal Mortality Review Committees,” approximately 700 women across the United States (U.S.) die each year as a result of pregnancy or pregnancy-related complications. Dr. Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, a certified nurse-midwife, the President of Frontier Nursing University and the President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, joins Nursecast to help us better understand the underlying causes and approaches to curb the increasing number of American women dying during childbirth. Genre Learning