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Regional health systems continue to provide maternity care for Albert Lea residents, but concern persists over the lack of certain hospital services, and its impact on families and the local economy.
Whitfield Regional Hospital in Demopolis, Alabama closed its birthing unit in 2014. Then maternal mortality increased in its service area.
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For expectant mothers living in rural parts of Minnesota, access to maternity units is disappearing, forcing them to sometimes drive hundreds of miles to give birth.
OhioHealth's Shelby Hospital stopped providing maternity services after February, and UH Lake West Medical Center in Willoughby will stop on April 15.
OhioHealth’s Shelby Hospital stopped providing maternity services after February. Lake West Medical Center in Willoughby is ending labor and delivery services April 15