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‘American Delivery’ earns top honors at Cleveland International Film Festival

A documentary highlighting the United State’s maternal mortality crisis and the work being done to address it won the prestigious “Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award” at the 2024 Cleveland International Film Festival.”American Delivery” features MetroHealth President and CEO Airica Steed. In the film, Dr. Steed shares her own experiences with inadequate care while she was pregnant. Good Morning Cleveland

Cleveland hosts its first Black Maternal Health Equity Summit

The Clinical Translational Science Collaborative at Case Western Reserve University hosted its first Black Maternal Health Equity Summit at Cleveland State University.Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens delivered a keynote address and gave local mothers and medical professionals a chance to share stories, research and policy updates, challenges, and opportunities. Participants also had the opportunity to apply their learnings and share insights