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"Failure to Deliver" — The Award-Winning Investigation
One of the most important pieces of journalism on out-of-hospital midwifery published in the United States. It changed what families could find out.
Discover, and become educated on, the unknown issues surrounding out-of-hospital births under the supervision of a midwife by reading Failure to Deliver, a nationally award-winning investigation by GateHouse Media's journalists Josh Salman, Emily Le Coz, and Lucille Sherman.
The series documents the cases, the regulatory gaps, the personal toll on families, and the structural reasons preventable deaths under out-of-hospital midwife care so often go uncounted. It is required reading for any expecting family considering home or birthing-center delivery.
Read the series at USA Today Network →
What this work led to
- The Delivering Action Summit, where many of the journalists, attorneys, and bereaved parents who shaped the reporting gathered for the first time.
- The Florida legislation we now track here.
- The Foundation itself — and the existence of this site.
Credits
Reporters: Josh Salman, Emily Le Coz, Lucille Sherman.
Publisher: GateHouse Media / USA Today Network.
Original publication: stories.usatodaynetwork.com/failuretodeliver/