maternal and child health

Organizations and people in New Mexico have sent supplies and even medical volunteers to Ukraine since the war began. But it could also draw some lessons from Albuquerque's sister city. Providers in Kharkiv have created a tool that providers here may find interesting, given the state’s growing maternity care deserts: a mobile maternity unit that can serve women in areas far away from hospitals.

One in three New Mexico counties are “maternity care deserts." Nearly 18% of women in New Mexico lack access to birthing hospitals within 30 minutes of where they live, compared to the national 9.7%.

The New Mexico Department of Health has missed its mark for early childhood health services and needs to create a whole new strategy to improve health…