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Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America


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.

Improving Access to Maternal Health Care In Rural Communities

Women of color in rural communities have less access to pre-pregnancy services, and data show they are more likely to become pregnant without ...

Ensuring Access to High-Quality Maternity Care in Rural America

Access to high-quality care during pregnancy and childbirth is a challenge for women living in rural and remote areas of the United States, partly owing to ...

New approaches for rural maternity care - PMC

Declining access to maternity care is a reality for many pregnant women living in rural areas, especially at great distances from urban or suburban centres.

Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America

Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America ; Press Publication: Commonwealth Fund ; Lead Researcher: Katy Kozhimannil ; Publish Date: October 5th, 2021.

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

Increasing hospital and labor & delivery (L&D) closures have led to declining access to hospital obstetric care in rural areas across the ...

Rural Maternal Health Overview - Rural Health Information Hub

Transportation barriers contribute to difficulty in accessing maternal health services. Many women in rural areas must drive significant ...

Maternal health in rural America

Access to postpartum care is equally important for rural women. The postpartum period is critical for recovering from childbirth, addressing ...

Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America - LinkedIn

In recent years, obstetric facilities — and sometimes whole hospitals — have shut down in rural areas of the South, the Upper Midwest, parts of ...

Navigating geographical disparities: access to obstetric hospitals in ...

Birthing people living in rural areas have a 9% greater risk of severe maternal morbidity and mortality from pregnancy and childbirth and are ...

A Worsening Crisis: Obstetric Care in Rural America

This includes rebuilding much of the infrastructure that we've lost over the last 25 years and promoting the training of broad scope Family ...

Advancing Rural Maternity Health Equity - CMS

... Access to Maternal Health Care in Rural Communities,” which focuses on access to care for women in rural communities before, during, and after pregnancy.

Improving access to maternal care in rural communities | AHA News

19, it's important to recognize the work rural hospitals are doing to improve access to maternal care for mothers living in rural communities.

Foreword: Maternity Care in Rural America

Access to maternal health care in rural America is declining at an alarming rate. Between 2004 and 2014 rural counties in the United States with hospital ...

Maternal Health Care Is Disappearing in Rural America

The disappearing maternal care problem is common across rural America. Only about 6 percent of the nation's ob–gyns work in rural areas.

Healthcare Access in Rural Communities Overview

The report Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America discusses strategies to improve maternal care, such as creating maternity care ...

Policy Brief: Maternity Care Access in West Piedmont

Maternal-Health-Care-in-Rural-Communities.pdf. Cullen, J. (2021, September 30). Restoring Access to Maternity Care in Rural America.

ADDRESSING THE CRISIS IN RURAL MATERNITY CARE

Physicians and nurses will be better able and hopefully more willing to deliver obstetric care in rural areas if they have access to remote support from ...

Rural Texas Maternal Health Initiative

Texas mothers in rural areas face significant barriers to accessing timely medical care and social services throughout their pregnancies. Nearly 50 percent of ...

The Biden-Harris Administration is taking actions to improve the ...

The Biden-Harris Administration is lowering health care costs for rural Americans and supporting access to high quality care in rural America.