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Maternity Care Desert | PeriStats - March of Dimes

A maternity care desert is any county without a hospital or birth center offering obstetric care and without any obstetric providers.

Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the US

Maternity care deserts are counties where there is no access to birthing hospitals, birth centers offering obstetric care, or obstetric providers. Nowhere to Go ...

Maternity care deserts are growing in the U.S., March of ... - NPR

A report from the nonprofit March of Dimes finds that 36% of counties in the U.S. are "maternity care deserts," meaning they have no ...

Maternity Care Deserts in the US | Health Policy - JAMA Network

Childbearing services are becoming scarcer. Nationwide, more than 400 maternity services closed between 2006 and 2020.

Pregnant women are less and less able to access maternity care

A March of Dimes report published Tuesday found that over a third of U.S. counties (35.1%) are what the group calls “maternity care deserts,” ...

March of Dimes Maternity Care Deserts Dashboard | Deloitte US

Deloitte Consulting and the Deloitte Health Equity Institute supported March of Dimes with development of a maternity care deserts interactive map, ...

First on CNN: US faces maternity care crisis, with 1 in 3 counties ...

Overall, more than 35% of US counties are considered “maternity care deserts,” which means there is limited or no access to maternity care there ...

Miles from treatment and pregnant: How women in maternity care ...

A 2023 report by the nonprofit March of Dimes considers more than one-third of counties in the nation "maternity care deserts," meaning they do ...

Confronting the Issue of Maternity Care Deserts

Access to maternity care is dwindling and birthing people are dying. We must invest resources in a multi-pronged strategy that includes many ...

Maternity care 'deserts' on the rise across the U.S., report finds

A maternity care desert is any county without a hospital or birth center offering obstetric care and without any obstetric providers.

Maternity care deserts are growing - Axios

Maternity care deserts are growing · The main reasons were low birth volume, insufficient reimbursement rates from insurers, and staff shortages ...

Maternity care deserts in the United States - Wikipedia

The March of Dimes defines a maternity care desert as a county that has no hospitals or birth centers offering obstetric care and no obstetric providers. ... As ...

Access to hospital and other maternity care continues to worsen

Over 5.6 million U.S. women live in “maternity care deserts,” counties with no access to obstetric care through a hospital or other provider ...

Why the problem of maternity care deserts is getting worse - PBS

The number of deaths due to pregnancy-related causes is on the rise, according to a new report from the March of Dimes, ...

access to obstetric hospitals in maternity care deserts and across the ...

This study investigates travel distances and time to obstetric hospitals, emphasizing disparities faced by those in maternity care deserts and rural areas.

Report: Nearly Half of Arkansas Counties Are Maternity Care Deserts

Nearly half of the counties in Arkansas are “maternity care deserts,” defined as counties without any hospitals or birth centers offering ...

The Growing Crisis of Maternity Care Deserts | The Regulatory Review

Yet 36 percent of all counties in the United States lack a hospital or birth center that offers obstetric care. Experts designate these counties ...

New report finds alarming decline in US maternity care access

Data shows that women in maternity care deserts have a 13% chance of experiencing preterm birth, and receive inadequate prenatal care at higher rates, according ...

Maternal care deserts expand amid persistent wave of OB ... - Chartis

Maternity services are being cut at an increasing rate across the country, creating “care deserts” where access is limited or nonexistent, ...

Behind Missouri's effort to tackle maternity care deserts | State News

'Moving the needle': Behind Missouri's effort to tackle maternity care deserts ... In the summer of 2023, at 33 weeks pregnant, Leigha Leppin woke ...