rural obstetrics

The report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform found a growing number of rural hospitals no longer deliver babies.

At a time when many rural hospitals continue to make the tough choice to shutter their obstetrics units and stop delivering babies, some have found ways to make their units survive and, sometimes, even thrive.

When Sarah Scantling went into labor this summer, she had to drive 30 miles and across state lines.Three years earlier, the only maternity ward where she…