“We have the fourth highest low birth weight, the tenth highest very low birth weight, the fourteenth highest teen birth rate, the eighth highest infant mortality and twentieth highest maternal mortality rate.”
– Dr. Angela Cherry, West Virginia Perinatal Partnership Advisory Council, Nov. 2022
High infant mortality is a complex problem in West Virginia that the WV Perinatal Partnership is working to solve. WVPP programs that seek to decrease some of the causes of infant mortality include:
Decreasing substance exposure and neonatal abstinence syndrome
Decreasing maternal smoking with Baby and Me Tobacco Free
Increasing access to maternal care in rural areas with WVRMOMS