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Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home. CLAIRE RUSH and LAURA UNGAR. September 17, 2023 at 10:11 AM.
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.
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 ...
Formerly Ontonagon Memorial Hospital. Effective April 20, 2024, the hospital will transition to a rural health clinic. [8] Memorial Healthcare: Shiawassee: Owosso: 107: Bronson LakeView Hospital: Van Buren: Paw Paw: 16: Part of Bronson Healthcare Group. McLaren Northern Michigan: Emmet: Petoskey: 202: Formerly Northern Michigan Regional Hospital.
Low Medicaid reimbursements play a role in maternity wards closing in rural areas, along with worker shortages and declining birth rates. More than half of rural hospitals have stopped offering ...
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 ...
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The findings reflect, in part, increasing closures of hospital obstetric units, she said. During 2021 and 2022, about 1 in 25 hospital maternity wards closed, the report found.