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.

(File 2011 / Corpus Christi Caller-Times) Rural hospitals across the country are shuttering their labor and delivery units, leaving rural Americans — including Texans — with less access to ...

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 ...