{"id":137821,"date":"2026-02-18T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137821\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:04:07","slug":"gynecologist-provides-a-closer-look-at-black-maternal-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137821\/","title":{"rendered":"Gynecologist provides a closer look at Black maternal health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black women in New York State are five times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women, according to the New York State health department.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Thomasena Ellison, associate director of Gynecology at Maimonides Health in Brooklyn, joined NY1 anchor Rocco Vertuccio on &#8220;News All Day&#8221; to discuss some of the factors impacting Black maternal health.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black women in New York State are five times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2367,7473,9,24,11,10,2368,2370,5252,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-137821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-live-at-noon","9":"tag-ctv","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-news-all-day","15":"tag-ny1-interviews","16":"tag-rocco-vertuccio","17":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}