Daily Yonder August 15, 2022
The lack of obstetrics units in rural America is forcing women to drive too far to get good care and contributing to pregnancy-related deaths of rural women, which is twice as high as the rate in large metropolitan areas.
Rural women are twice as likely to die from pregnancy complications than women in large metropolitan areas, federal data shows. The lack of obstetrics care at many rural hospitals contributes to the problem, said a Montana researcher.
“In our research we find that rural women lack access to the more specialty high-level, high-risk obstetrics care,” said sociologist Maggie Thorsen, Ph.D. of Montana State University. “That kind of equipment, the training, the staffing doesn’t necessarily exist in some...
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