Solutions reporting secured funding for maternal mortality review

In 2020, the Alabama Legislature voted to appropriate funding for a Maternal Mortality Review Committee, in charge of investigating the causes behind maternal deaths in the state. Beginning in 2019, reporter Anna Claire Vollers, then at AL.com, the largest statewide news site, had brought increasing public attention and awareness to the issue through a series of articles on motherhood, co-published by Reckon, a sister publication. Her work contributed to growing calls by physicians, academics and advocacy groups to support the committee financially. Following the series’ publication, the state medical association launched a maternal health awareness campaign using information uncovered in her reporting.