Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Team (MMRT) collects and reviews case-level information about all maternal deaths among Wisconsin residents for the purpose of making recommendations to the Department of Health Services and its partners on changes in systems and practice that may result in the prevention of future Wisconsin maternal deaths.

The Wisconsin MMRT was established by the Wisconsin Division of Public Health and the Wisconsin Section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1997. Prior to 1997, cases of maternal mortality were reviewed by a committee of the Wisconsin Medical Society. Currently, the MMRT is supported through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention ERASE MM Grant, CDC Foundation Rapid Maternal Overdose Review (RMOR) Grant, and the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Block Grant administered by the Federal Health Resources and Services Administration.

The Wisconsin MMRT is currently reviewing deaths from 2017. There were 66,593 live births in 2016.

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Contacts

Primary

Name

Hannah Gjertson

Credentials

Title

Maternal Mortality Review Coordinator

Affiliation

Wisconsin Department of Health Services/UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

MMRC Role

Coordinator

hannah.gjertson@dhs.wisconsin.gov

Secondary

Name

Emily Morian-Lozano

Credentials

MPH, MSW

Title

Maternal Mortality Review Epidemiologist

Affiliation

Wisconsin Department of Health Services/UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

MMRC Role

Epidemiologist/Data Analyst

emily.morianlozano@dhs.wisconsin.gov

Secondary

Name

Karen Morris

Credentials

RN, BSN

Title

Maternal Mortality Review Nurse Abstractor

Affiliation

Wisconsin Department of Health Services/UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

MMRC Role

Abstractor

karenj.morris@dhs.wisconsin.gov

Sources of Funding

ERASE MM

Yes

STATE MATERNAL HEALTH INNOVATION

TITLE V MCH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT

Yes

STATE BUDGET

Scope of cases reviewed

All pregnancy-associated deaths (All deaths of women while pregnant or within one year of the end of pregnancy, due to any cause)

Individuals, Disciplines, and Organizations Represented on Review

Organizations	Core Disciplines	Specialty Disciplines
Academic Institutions Community-Based Doula Program Federally Qualified Health Centers FIMR/CDR Programs Hospitals/Hospital Association Professional Assoc. State Chapters Rural Health Associations State Medicaid Agency State Title V Program	Family Medicine Forensic Pathology Maternal Fetal Medicine/Perinatology Nurse Midwifery Obstetrics and Gynecology Perinatal Nursing Psychiatry Public Health Social Work	Addiction Counseling Epidemiology Mental Health Provider Public Health Nursing Quality/Risk Management

State Materials

Wisconsin MMR Pregnancy-associated overdose deaths (2016-2019)

2021

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Prevention Research Center to create this report that describes selected deaths during and after pregnancy due to overdose that were reviewed by the Wisconsin
Maternal Mortality Review Team.

Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Recommendations Report, April 2018

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

2018

This report summarizes key observations and recommendations from the Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Team. A scenario is presented for each topic to provide an example of the sorts of challenges that are often faced by pregnant women and mothers. The recommendations serve as a call to action to identify steps to improve the health and health care of women and mothers.

Severe Maternal Morbidity among Wisconsin Residents, 2010-2014

Hospital discharge data

2015

Wisconsin regularly shares information on Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) with the MMR team in order to complement the mortality information the team already sees. However, SMM does not include rates of non-obstetric complications, so Wisconsin is partnering with Illinois to better identify these events.

Wisconsin MMR Report: 2006-2010

2015

Maternal mortality is a key indicator of maternal health and the general state of health care. This report summarizes maternal deaths in Wisconsin from January 2006 through December 2010.

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