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 ...

At a hospital in Kansas City, a group of labor and delivery nurses are exchanging job leads in a group chat, unsure whether to feel grateful or devastated. Their unit—once a lifeline for emergency ...

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Over 500 hospitals have dropped labor and delivery services in the last decade, many of them in rural areas.

Eilidh Pederson has had a front-row seat to rural maternal care, giving her a unique lens into the issue. In July, she gave birth at the very hospital she helps lead. That experience deepened her ...

Olney Hamilton Hospital joins the almost 60% of rural Texas hospitals that do not deliver babies, leaving large swaths of this state without a nearby place to give birth. Between 2010 and 2022, Texas ...