Maternity services are facing closures across the country due to immense financial challenges faced by hospitals and health systems. Becker’s covered 31 providers that closed maternity services this year. From the article:
In rural areas, more than 200 hospitals across the U.S. have been forced to shut down delivery services in the last decade while still expected to perform deliveries for nearly 1 in 10 babies across the country.
In fact, a Becker’s poll that asked healthcare leaders how concerned their hospital, health system or practice is with the rate of maternity cuts and closures, 51% of the 378 respondents said “very concerned.”
