Calmatters: She Drove A Hundred Miles To Give Birth. New California Laws Are Bringing Maternity Care Closer To Home

Dr. Robert Moore, chief medical officer for Partnership HealthPlan, a health insurer that covers the state's northernmost ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Rural mothers giving birth to more babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome, research finds

The amount of infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome in rural areas is on the rise, according to research from Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota. 1. For the study, researchers examined ...
InForum

As Mayo Clinic, other hospitals reduce rural labor and delivery services, one hospital is investing in them

A growing number of babies are being delivered at Northfield Hospital. It’s partially the result of fewer nearby hospitals ...
WFAE

As a baby bust hits rural areas, hospital labor and delivery wards are closing down

OSKALOOSA, Iowa — Rural regions like the one surrounding this southern Iowa town used to have a lot more babies and many more places to give birth to them. At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered ...
WDTN

Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Alisha Alderson placed her folded clothes ...

Building a new hospital left one rural Texas town without a place to deliver babies

On April 14, Texas’ oldest operating rural hospital gave way to its newest. Olney Hamilton Hospital had been serving this ...
MM&M

Rural hospitals built during baby boom now face baby bust

Those facilities, representing about a third of all Iowa hospitals, are located mostly in rural areas where birth numbers have plummeted. In some Iowa counties, annual numbers of births have fallen by ...