Positive Outliers: How Some Rural Communities Maintain Access to Labor and Delivery Services
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Description
Explores healthcare providers' approaches to ensuring maternal care access in rural Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Mississippi. Provides case studies on the role of rural hospitals and clinics in providing labor and delivery services, discusses financial and logistical challenges faced by providers, and details funding, policy, and service delivery strategies supporting continued access.
Author(s)
Sarah Klein, Molly Castle Work
Date
10/2025
Organizations
Bassett Research Institute, Commonwealth Fund
Tagged as
Access
· Clinics
· Federally Qualified Health Centers
· Funding
· Hospitals
· Maternal health and prenatal care
· Mobile and episodic healthcare delivery
· Networking and collaboration
· Policy
· Service delivery models
· Alabama
· Mississippi
· Oklahoma
· Texas