Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies ... One of her clients had a Cesarean birth, and afterwards, a ...

further distancing women from the care they need. Allison Rollans, owner of High Country Doulas, witnessed the abandonment of rural mothers up close at a birth at a rural Western North Carolina ...

She told Carolina Public Press that conversations about the future of maternal health care in the state are ongoing. Lucas Thomae / Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural women’s health care in ...

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This appears to be evidence of ECU Health quietly reducing services at its rural facilities, resulting in more women across northeastern NC travelling to Greenville or finding other options for care.

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Rural hospitals could be putting pregnant women and babies at risk by slashing labor and delivery services across North Carolina. Natasha Fuller delivered her two children at Charles A.

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