Rural regions like the one surrounding this southern Iowa town used to have a lot more babies, and many more places to give birth to them. At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered their labor and ...

Eilidh Pederson has had a front-row seat to rural maternal care, giving her a unique lens into the issue. In July, she gave birth at the very hospital she helps lead. That experience deepened her ...

Residents in rural communities across the United States continue to lose access to hospital-based obstetrics services, with ...