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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. Rural ...
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.
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 ...
Fewer than half of rural women live within a thirty-minute drive of the nearest hospital able to provide obstetric services, and 12% do not live within a sixty-minute drive of the nearest such hospital, resulting in increased maternal and infant mortality rates. [14] Rural residents may live on farms, ranches and Indian reservations far from a ...
It's common practice during pregnancy to visit your local ob-gyn and deliver at a nearby hospital. But a growing number of hospitals across the country have closed their labor and delivery units ...
More than 20% of our nation’s rural hospitals, or 430 hospitals across 43 states, are near collapse. This is despite the fact that rural hospitals are not only crucial for health care but also ...
Rural hospital closures dropped during the pandemic, from a record-high 18 in 2020 to eight in 2021 and 2022 combined, according to the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, as emergency ...
At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered their labor and delivery units since 2000.