06/04/2026
Our President, Sadie Broekemeier, traveled to Atlanta to attend the CDC ERASE MM Conference on behalf of the Minnesota Maternal Mortality Review Committee, a national gathering of public health professionals, researchers, and community partners dedicated to stopping preventable maternal deaths.
The sessions Sadie attended covered everything from mental health and pregnancy-related deaths, to rural health transformation to strengthening data for American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
Across every state represented in that room, the same contributors kept surfacing: mental health conditions, substance use disorders, overdose, cardiovascular issues, and barriers to care. And in nearly every case reviewed, the death was determined to be preventable.
That's eye-opening.
For us at Recovering Hope, this isn't abstract. We work every day at the intersection of substance use, mental health, and community health, the exact space where so many of these tragedies begin. Being part of conversations at the state and national level is how we make sure the work we do in rural Minnesota translates into systems that actually change.
Minnesota's 2020–2021 pregnancy-related mortality rate was 17.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. The #1 cause? Mental health conditions, including substance use disorders.
That's our responsibility.
Proud of Sadie for representing our community in this room and for bringing it all back home.
Read Sadie's Thought: https://recoveringhope.life/post/sadie-broekemeier-and-recovering-hope-attend-cdc-erase-mm-conference-in-atlanta-ga
🔗 cdc.gov/maternal-mortality
🔗 health.state.mn.us/people/womeninfants/maternalmort/committee.html
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