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Investigating out-of-hospital midwifery
Failure to Deliver HOW THE RISE OF OUT-OF-HOSPITAL BIRTHS PUTS MOTHERS AND BABIES AT RISK .
Emily Le Coz
GateHouse Media
@emily_lecoz
gatehousenews.com/failuretodeliver/
CDC WONDER
wonder.cdc.gov
CDC downloadable data files
A more robust data set, but
difficult to use. Requires statistical
software or a programming
workaround to convert flattened
file (no column headers) into a
queryable data set.
cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm
Out-of-hospital births are deadlier
0-27 days analysis
3x more likely to die after home delivery
with a midwife versus hospital delivery with
a midwife
https://github.com/GateHouseMedia/PLBID
Out-of-hospital births are deadlier
0-27 days analysis
3x more likely to die after home delivery
with a midwife versus hospital delivery with
a midwife
https://github.com/GateHouseMedia/PLBID
How many hospital transfers? (A lot.)
Hundreds of FOIAs shows lax oversight
First-of-its-kind database
http://gatehousenews.com/failuretodeliver/explore-the-database/
Data sources
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention — mainly these two links:
cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm
wonder.cdc.gov/
Local, state and federal court systems — too many to list, but ...
pacer.gov/psco/cgi-bin/links.pl
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/HomePage
The a=
Harvesting financial benefits from financial burdens
Sources
5 - Sheriffs
▪ Who is reporting a lot of bullying? Who is reporting zero? Are they accurate?
Our story changed Indiana law, and you can help change the law in your state too!
Seclusion Rooms
can also be called
calming rooms,
quiet rooms, or
cool down rooms
Restraint is when a
child is put in a
manual hold typically
to prevent them from
hurting themselves
Seclusion Rooms and Use of Restraint
▪ Ask your state department of education for their seclusion and restraint
data
Simple Snacks
Appeared on television and online, with interactive graphic on Dec. 13, 2018.
In either case, you would note the Lastly, cross reference inspection
number of applicable violations in dates with the schedule at that
each cell. location: Are inspections being
done when the location is empty
and no food is being prepared?
Contact
Paula Lavigne
paula.lavigne@espn.com
Sandra Fish
fishnette@gmail.com
Investigating the Alcohol
Industry
● Anti-competitive behavior
● Massive lobbying arm
● Local powerbrokers
Alcohol kills 90,000 People a Year
Alcohol kills nearly twice as many people as opioids every year, and the numbers
are going up. It’s also a carcinogen, responsible for 15 percent of all breast cancer
deaths.
Big Booze Behaves Like Big Tobacco
Sometimes they are one and the same.
If you checked all three boxes, then you have pay to play!
Pay attention and ask questions
- Be familiar with how your government awards contracts – RFPs, bid
procedures, public notice
- Look for big contracts and ask for RFPs, responsive bids
- If someone is getting a lot of campaign donations, keep track and
start asking why
- If a deal doesn’t make sense – ask why it is going forward
It’s probably legal … unless …
• Pay-to-play becomes a crime when there is an explicit agreement
between a donor and an official that an action be taken in exchange
for a donation – quid pro quo.
• Merely the presence of contributions doesn’t prove anything. There
has to be proof of a deal.
• But keep asking the question. “Sorry, but I have to ask, was this
contract awarded because the company donated to your campaign?”
• Stenger said: “The Post-Dispatch narrative concerning my campaign
contributions is misleading and tiresome.”
Mark Walker
The New York Times
Duane Pohlman
● Construction companies
○ $480M on capital improvements
over the last five years, including:
■ Madison Construction $45M
-- 47% over budget.
● Construction management
companies
○ Globetrotters Engineering $3.5M
to assess elevators, but not to fix.
● Building managers
○ $$ millions to maintain properties
● Elevator maintenance
companies
○ $1M per year