Kimberly Seals Allers, the creator of the Irth App, joined “In Focus” top discuss maternal mortality.

Nationwide, Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications.

Seals Allers explained how the Irth app addresses these disparities.

Irth is a Yelp-like app that addresses racism in maternity and infant care.

Twenty-one percent of Black mothers hospitalized for childbirth reported perceptions of poor treatment due to race, ethnicity, cultural background or language.

Seals Allers explained how the Irth App holds health systems publicly accountable and helps them create improvement plans.

The app currently provides feedback data to at least 32 birthing hospitals across the city.