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“At the end of the day, who suffers” from the emergency room’s closure and reduced services at the hospital? “My patients,” said Williams.

More than half of Mississippi counties are considered maternity care deserts, or have no hospitals providing obstetric care, no OB-GYNs and no certified nurse midwives.

“I mean, if you do a surgery and get into somebody’s bowel and you don’t have a surgeon on staff, what are you supposed to do?” the OB-GYN said.

St. Dominic Memorial Hospital in Jackson is also closing all of its behavioral health services. The hospital is citing financial challenges.

After over a year working to secure funding for her nonprofit Sisters in Birth to open the center, she’s come up short – and she blames what she calls an unfair and unclear federal funding process funneled through the state’s members of Congress.