Recent coverage of rural maternity care deserts

I've seen a great deal of coverage of this topic in recent weeks.  With no time to compose a post, I'm just going to list and link to the stories here. 

CalMatters published "As hospitals close labor words, large stretches of California are without maternity care" by Kristen Hwang, Ana Ibarra, and Erica Yee on November 15, 2023.   

Sarah Jane Tribble reported "Can family doctors deliver rural America from its maternal health crisis?" for NPR on December 18, 2023.

Wyofile published a series of stories under the heading Delivery desert.  It includes this piece on tribal clinics by Katie Klingsporn.

This piece by Liz Carey for the Daily Yonder goes beyond maternal and OB/GYN care.  It is titled "Rural Hospitals, Medicaid Expansion Priorities for Kansas Governor." 

This Idaho Capital Sun published this related piece back in the summer, "As US maternal mortality rates surge, Idaho abandons panel investigating pregnancy-related deaths." 

This piece in the Washington Post, out of Madera, California, is not maternity-care specific.  "A hospital’s abrupt closure means, for many, help is distant," by Scott Wilson, published on Nov. 16, 2023, is about  the closure of the county's only adult-care hospital.  I wrote about those events in this June post.