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“I was sitting in a hair salon a few days ago and some people started joking about me giving birth on the side of the road," the 45-year-old said. Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards.
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.
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During 2021 and 2022, about 1 in 25 hospital maternity wards closed, the report found. “Hospitals are not making enough money, and it’s obstetric units that are oftentimes the units that get ...
The county-designated highways in Michigan comprise a 1,241.6-mile-long (1,998.2 km) system of primary county roads across the US state of Michigan. Unlike the State Trunkline Highway System , these highways have alphanumeric designations with letters that correspond to one of eight lettered zones in the state.
Empty infant beds sit gathered in a corner in an empty maternity ward at Madera Community Hospital in Calif., which closed in January 2023, on Sept. 13, 2023.