After a hospital stopped delivering babies, Deep East Texas faces a growing maternity care crisis

Women in deep East Texas drive over an hour to give birth after the last obstetrics unit in the area closed in 2019. But if closing the unit was hard, reopening it is proving nearly impossible.

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