Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the U.S. 2026
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Description
Reports on maternal healthcare access and provides data on maternity care deserts, distribution of OB providers, and travel time to maternity care, including color-coded, county-level maps. Includes rural versus urban data comparisons of maternal health workforce availability, travel distance to care, and labor and delivery unit closures, and discusses efforts to address rural shortages, including the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP).
Date
08/2026
Organization
March of Dimes
Tagged as
Access
· Closures of healthcare facilities and services
· Health disparities
· Health workforce supply and demand
· Maternal health and prenatal care
· Maternal health workforce
· Policy
· Rural Health Transformation Program
· Rural-urban differences
· Statistics and data
· Women