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Many Rural Hospitals Can't Offer Labor or Delivery Care

Source
The Optimist
Date
Oct 31, 2025
Summary
Describes challenges with offering labor and delivery services in rural Texas, discussing reimbursement, workforce shortages, and distance to care.
Tagged as
Access · Health workforce supply and demand · Maternal health and prenatal care · Maternal health workforce · Medicaid · Reimbursement and payment models · Texas