Labor and delivery services have ended or are set to end at 100 rural hospitals since the end of 2020, highlighting a growing maternal health access crisis across the U.S. The findings come from the ...

What Do Labor and Delivery Nurses Do? Labor and delivery nurses have a wide range of responsibilities. They typically care for multiple pregnant, laboring, or postpartum patients at one time. Labor ...

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” ...

Amid ongoing financial challenges, workforce shortages and declining birth rates, many hospitals and health systems are being forced to close maternity services in 2025. A Center for Healthcare ...

Rep. Susan Johnson (D-Windham) speaks at a rally against the then-proposed closure of the labor and delivery unit at Windham Hospital. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This story is part of CT ...

Since the 1970s, electronic fetal monitoring has been the go-to technology in perinatal obstetrics for the detection of fetal distress during labor. Although the technology has changed slightly in the ...

KETSCHKE WMUR NEWS NINE. ROSS. THANK YOU. MORE NEWS FROM THAT MEETING TONIGHT, BY THE WAY. DARTMOUTH HEALTH SAYS IT WILL BE MOVING THE LABOR AND DELIVERY SERVICES CURRENTLY OFFERED AT CMC TO ELIOT ...

More rural hospitals shut down labor and delivery units this year as the providers faced mounting financial challenges, according to a new report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment ...

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More rural hospitals have closed or are planning to close their labor and delivery units in 2025 than in 2024, bringing the total number of closures since the end of 2020 to 116, according to the ...

If you see the phrase “precipitous labor” written on a medical chart, it might not mean much to you. But chances are, you know someone who’s experienced it. We’ve all heard stories of people who have ...