Maternal health in rural America

Rural Maternal Health Overview - Rural Health Information Hub

The infants of rural non-Hispanic Black mothers had the highest infant mortality rate at 12.08 per 1,000 live births, which is nearly 3 times ...

Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America

Nearly half of rural US counties are maternity care deserts where lack of access to obstetric care contributes to rising maternal death rates.

Proposed Solutions for Improving Maternal Health Care in Rural ...

The lack of maternal health care in rural America can also result in several adverse maternal and infant outcomes including premature birth, low ...

Maternal health in rural America

Many rural areas have a shortage of providers with advanced training in maternity care. xxiii xix Staffing models for maternity care in rural ...

Improving Access to Maternal Health Care In Rural Communities

A lack of access to high quality maternal health services in rural communities is the result of many factors including hospital and obstetric ...

Rural–Urban Disparities in Adverse Maternal Outcomes in the ...

Maternal mortality increased in both rural (66.9–81.7 deaths per 100 000 live births) and urban (38.1–42.3) areas and was nearly 2 times higher ...

Availability of Hospital-Based Obstetric Care in Rural Areas | U.S. GAO

Access to obstetric care is a growing concern in rural U.S. communities, given recent closures of hospitals in rural areas. The loss of hospital ...

3 Keys to Addressing the Rural Maternal Health Crisis | AHA

3 Ways to Build Rural Maternal Health Resources: Expand access to prenatal care and clinicians. A pregnant woman with her belly exposed with an ultrasound wand ...

Health Disparities in Rural Women - ACOG

ABSTRACT: Rural women experience poorer health outcomes and have less access to health care than urban women. Many rural areas have limited numbers of health ...

Maternal and obstetric care challenges in rural America - HRSA

While maternal health disparities for black and Native American/Alaska. Native women and/or rural women are significantly influenced by the mothers' life ...

Rural–Urban Disparities in Adverse Maternal Outcomes in the ...

Maternal mortality increased in both rural (66.9–81.7 deaths per 100 000 live births) and urban (38.1–42.3) areas and was nearly 2 times higher in rural areas ( ...

Barriers to Improving Rural Maternal Health - RHIhub Toolkit

Telehealth, remote monitoring, and video chat follow-up services can improve access to maternal healthcare for rural women, reducing the need to ...

Framing Maternal Health in Rural America | CMS

1. Provide an overview of the state of maternal healthcare in rural communities, with a focus on access to maternal health services before, ...

HRSA Announces $15 Million in New Investments to Address ...

HRSA Announces $15 Million in New Investments to Address Maternal Health Needs and Disparities in Rural Communities · $105 million in recent ...

Improving access to maternal care in rural communities | AHA News

Rural hospitals have implemented a number of solutions to ensure that mothers in rural communities have access to care before, during and after their ...

The Additional Risks and Challenges for Pregnant Women in Rural ...

For example, we found Black women in rural areas experience an estimated 93.7 incidents of severe health complications per 10,000 deliveries, ...

The Rural Maternity Care Crisis | Commonwealth Fund

Pregnant women living in rural America face unprecedented barriers to maternity care. First, hospitals are closing at an alarming rate; nearly ...

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Child and Maternal Health in Rural Areas Lags the Nation ...

One in five Americans lives in a rural area, including about 18 million women of reproductive age, but key indicators, including mortality ...

Rural Disparities, Racial Disparities, and Maternal Health Crisis Call ...

Between 2007 and 2015, the higher rural maternal mortality and morbidity rate nationally, “represents an excess of approximately 4,378 cases of ...