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U.S. hospitals continue to shut down labor and delivery services (www.sciencenews.org)

submitted 1 week ago by pelespirit to c/politics

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More and more, people giving birth can’t count on their closest hospital having the specialized health care they need.

Researchers tallied losses and gains of labor and delivery units at close to 5,000 U.S. hospitals from 2010 to 2022. The losses prevailed. More than half of rural hospitals and more than one-third of urban hospitals did not offer obstetric services in 2022, researchers report December 4 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That’s worse than in 2010, when 43 percent of rural hospitals and 30 percent of urban hospitals lacked these services.

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[–] pelespirit 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The interesting part of this is, hospitals use the maternity wards for advertising. If parents use them and have good service, they'll continue to trust them for further care. At least in the high population areas. The rural ones are closing for lack of funding.

It's so short sighted. When the rural politician has an accident or a heart attack visiting home, good luck. You'll be in the same boat as your constituents.

[–] transientpunk 4 points 1 week ago

If you own all the hospitals, it doesn't matter if you have a good experience or not. What are going to do, not go to the hospital?

a capitalist, probably