maternal mortality and are insufficient data sources from which to derive a full scope of medical and social determinant factors contributing to maternal deaths. While the addition of pregnancy checkboxes on death certificates since 2003 have likely improved States’ abilities to identify pregnancy-related deaths, they are not generally completed by obstetrical providers or persons trained to recognize pregnancy-related mortality. Thus, these vital forms may be missing information or may capture inconsistent data. Due to varying maternal mortality-related analyses, lack of reliability, and granularity in data, current maternal mortality informatics do not fully encapsulate the myriad medical and socially determinant factors that contribute to such high maternal mortality rates within the United States compared to other developed nations. Non-standardization of data and lack of data sharing across States and between Federal entities, health networks, and research institutions keep the Nation in the dark about ways to prevent maternal deaths. (12) Having reliable and valid State data aggregated at the Federal level are critical to the Nation’s ability to quell surges in maternal death and imperative for researchers to identify long-lasting interventions. (13) Leaders in maternal wellness highly recommend that maternal deaths be investigated at the State level first. Then, have data regarding maternal deaths be standardized across States, streamlined, de-identified, and sent once a year to a federally supervised database, managed by a Federal agency at the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Such data standardization and collection would be similar in operation and effect to the National Program of Cancer Registries housed at the CDC and akin to the Confidential Enquiry in Maternal Deaths Programme in the United Kingdom. Such a maternal mortality and morbidities registry and surveillance would help providers, academicians, lawmakers, and the public to address questions concerning the types of,