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The closures have worsened so-called “maternity care deserts” — counties, mostly rural, with no hospitals or birth centers and no OB providers. More than two million women of childbearing ...
A growing number of rural hospitals have been shuttering their labor and delivery units, forcing pregnant women to travel longer distances for care or face giving birth in an emergency room.
Maternity wards in rural areas have been closing their doors, leaving only 17 of the state’s 42 rural hospitals with labor and delivery services. Women living in these areas are often forced to ...
This is a list of hospitals in Pennsylvania, a U.S. state. The list includes only hospitals that are currently licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health or operated by the Veterans Health Administration, according to data collected by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) and the Pennsylvania Department of ...
Nearly 7 million American women of childbearing age are living in areas with no or limited maternity care access, per the report, and more than 146,000 infants were born in maternity care deserts ...
Somerset State Hospital: Somerset: 1938: 463: 1947: n/a: closed: cottage: Began as county poor farm. Is now converted to a Correctional facility South Mountain Restoration Center: Mont Alto: 1907: 1100: 1970: active: cottage: also known as Samuel G. Dixon State Hospital Torrance State Hospital: Derry Township: 1919: 3300: 1950s: 229 (2008 ...
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Between 2010 and 2021, the American Hospital Association reported that there were 136 rural hospital closures around the country. This year, nearly one-third of the remaining rural hospitals could ...