Dr. Wendy Wilcox, Chief Women's Health Officer for NYCHealthSystem spoke with us about multiple facets of maternal fatality in our most recent interview for highlighting honorees from our Power Players in Health Care list.
In our second conversation with an honoree from our 2022 Power Players in Health Care list published on 10/31, we spoke with Dr. Wendy Wilcox, Chief Women’s Health Officer for NYC Health + Hospitals about maternal fatality, New York’s maternal fatality rates and efforts to reduce them, as well as the disparity between maternal deaths of Black and White women.
Dr. Wilcox dives into the history and construction of health care system, speaking on health care disparities and how disparities often coincide with areas with a higher number of Black and Brown individuals. She provides insight into New York’s maternal fatality rate and how New York’s ranking has risen from 48th to 28th in the entire country over the past years. Dr.
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