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More than a third of counties in the U.S. don't have a hospital or birth center that offers obstetric care or any obstetric health care providers, one report says. |  | cbsn.ws/40WwtLE
Miles from treatment and pregnant: How women in maternity care deserts are coping as health care options dwindle
More than a third of counties in the U.S. don't have a hospital or birth center that offers obstetric care or any obstetric health care providers, one report says. |
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