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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.
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 Health.
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 ...
On Sept. 20, 2013, the maternity ward closed due to a decline in the numbers of births at the hospital leading to financial struggles. [4] In 2015, Memorial Hospital joined Guthrie leading to the change in name to Guthrie Towanda Memorial Hospital. [6] The hospital received the Women's Choice Award for Emergency Care in 2017 and 2018. [7]
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 ...
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