Like much of the South, Georgia has long grappled with limited access to health care — particularly specialized services. This issue is especially acute in maternal health care, where the state ranks 46th nationally .

Despite efforts by advocates and policymakers at all levels to address the issue, there are still gaps in the information available on the risks pregnancy can pose for many in Georgia.

A recent study done at Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering has filled some of those gaps by analyzing maternal transfers across the state to showcase the significant barriers many women face in accessing timely and risk-appropriate care.

“Maternal transport is a process that happens when a patient goes to a facility that perhaps doesn’t have the

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