Last week, Keck Medicine of USC announced the closure of USC Verdugo Hills Hospital obstetric services on Nov. 20. They cited a 40% decline in deliveries over the past decade within “our community” ...

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A Hamilton County hospital is closing down its obstetrics labor and delivery program due to staffing shortages. Mercy Health-West Hospital has served Greater Cincinnati’s expecting mothers and ...

Labor and delivery units are losing money and struggling to find staff, in rural areas and large cities alike. By Sarah Kliff Sarah Kliff is an investigative health ...

Three labor and delivery units closed last month in Alabama, including one in downtown Birmingham, one in suburban Shelby County and another in rural Monroe County. These are just the latest in a ...

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 ...

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In Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare’s labor and delivery unit, the patients aren't the only ones with babies on the way — so were 14 of the unit's nurses who care for them, all at the same time. On the ...

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. (WGN) — Expectant mothers will soon have fewer options in the northwest suburbs. On Thursday, a hospital in Elk Grove Village announced it will no longer offer labor and ...

Ascension Alexian Brothers Hospital in Elk Grove Village is set to eliminate labor and delivery services, with officials saying it intends to consolidate birthing services and establish a "dedicated ...