Rural hospitals often scrap labor and delivery services after mergers, study finds

A 10-week-old infant drinks from a bottle. A new study found that when rural hospitals were acquired by larger health systems, they were 30% less likely to still offer labor and delivery services five years later. JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES via STATELINE
BY ANNA CLAIRE VOLLERSStateline Rural hospitals are less likely to offer obstetric services after they’ve been acquired by a larger health system, leading to mixed…
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