A doctor performs an ultrasound on a pregnant woman. The closing of hospital labor and delivery units is a nationwide trend. (Teresa Crawford / Associated Press) Last week, Keck Medicine of USC ...

On a recent afternoon in Seaside, Oregon, Heather Murdoch-Medema packed up her apartment, categorizing which boxes would go into storage and which she would take with her to her new home in Portland.

A security officer enters the Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego emergency entrance in 2020. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) A few months ago, I worked my final night as an OB-GYN on ...

Nine months after Monroe County Hospital in rural South Alabama closed its labor and delivery department in October 2023, Grove Hill Memorial Hospital in neighboring Clarke County also stopped ...

Ascension Alexian Brothers will soon close its inpatient obstetrics unit after a state board voted Tuesday to allow the move, despite outcry from nurses and community members. The state Health ...

A loss at Cleveland Clinic is putting labor and delivery services in Indian River County at risk. Cleveland Clinic already closed its labor and delivery unit in Martin County in April. The Indian ...

Rural hospitals across the country are shuttering their labor and delivery units, leaving rural Americans — including Texans — with less access to necessary medical care. Across the country since 2020 ...

More rural hospitals shut down labor and delivery units this year as the providers faced mounting financial challenges, according to a new report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment ...

NUMBERS START TO DIP AGAIN. ALL IN YOUR FORECAST COMING UP. TIFF COVERING THE TREASURE COAST IN APRIL. WOMEN LOOKING TO GIVE BIRTH AT A MARTIN COUNTY HOSPITAL WILL HAVE TO LOOK ELSEWHERE. THE NEWS ...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — When Northfield Hospital renovated its Birth Center in 2020, it increased its capacity to handle as many as 750 births a year. It could reach that number soon. Lisa Bauer, vice ...