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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
MS
Title
Maternal Mortality Review Coordinator
Affiliation
Wisconsin Department of Health Services/UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
MMRC Role
Coordinator
Email
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
Email
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
Email
karenj.morris@dhs.wisconsin.gov
Sources of Funding
ERASE MM
Yes
STATE MATERNAL HEALTH INNOVATION
No
TITLE V MCH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT
Yes
STATE BUDGET
No
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
Success Stories

Wisconsin Success Story: Findings Prompt MMR Program to Write COVID-19 Vaccination Health Alert (Apr 2022)

In partnership with Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) leadership, the Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review (MMR) program helped to write and release a Health Alert through the DHS Health Alert Network (HAN) to encourage urgent efforts to intensify COVID-19 vaccine education and to accelerate primary vaccination and booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines for people who are pregnant, recently pregnant (including those who are lactating), who are trying to get pregnant now, or who might become pregnant in the future.

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State Materials
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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.
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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.
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2016-17 Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Report
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
2022
This report will give a high-level overview of Wisconsin’s pregnancy-associated deaths that occurred in 2016 and 2017, including determination of pregnancy-relatedness, demographics, cause of death, and recommendations to prevent future deaths
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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.
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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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