“American Delivery,” a new documentary debuting next week at the Cleveland International Film Festival, features
MetroHealth President and CEO Airica Steed, Ed.D., RN, MBA, FACHE – a fourth-generation nurse – and the health system's innovative Nurse Family Partnership, which pairs nurses with pregnant patients throughout their pregnancies and until their children's second birthday.
Join us at the 48th Cleveland International Film Festival for the world premiere of the film, which examines the impact of maternal mortality across the nation and here in Cleveland.
Tickets are on sale here:
American Delivery (clevelandfilm.org) There are two opportunities to see the film in person with the filmmakers. We hope to see you there!
Saturday, April 6 at 7:30
p.m.
Screening followed by Q&A in the theater
Mimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square
Sunday, April 7 at 9:45 a.m.
Screening followed by Q&A in the theater, extended Q&A at 11:45
Mimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square
After the film Sunday, stick around for an extended Q&A in the ideastream Westfield Studio Theatre next door, featuring:
- Dr. Airica Steed, CEO of MetroHealth
- Dr. Joyce Fitzpatrick, Director, Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
- Angela Newman-White, Executive Director, First Year Cleveland
- Filmmakers Carolyn Jones and Lisa Frank, plus two of the stars of the film
About the film:
Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. A community of nurses, primarily from Cleveland and Dayton, set out to correct a disturbing fact—the United States has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world, especially among women of color—by directly engaging with our broken healthcare system and the mothers who fall through the cracks. Emotional and hopeful, AMERICAN DELIVERY follows pregnant mothers on their unique birth journeys from pregnancy, through childbirth, through the postpartum period to reveal the joys, fears, and reality of what it means to give birth in America. Watch the trailer here. 
