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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 ...
The American Hospital Association says at least 89 obstetric units closed in rural hospitals between 2015 and 2019, and more have shuttered since. The main reasons are decreasing numbers of births ...
The March of Dimes report comes on the heels of a February 2023 report from the health care consulting firm Chartis, which found that 217 hospitals in the U.S. have closed their labor and delivery ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
According to the latest report from Oklahoma's Maternal Mortality Review Committee — which uses a rolling three-year maternal mortality rate rather than yearly — if you remove COVID 19-related ...
At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered their labor and delivery units since 2000. At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered their labor and delivery units since 2000. ... News. Science & Tech ...