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- Janice Hopkins Tanne
- New York
More than 5.6 million women in the US live where there is no or limited access to maternity care, says a report by the March of Dimes organisation on maternity care deserts.1
Maternity care deserts, the report said, “are counties where there is a lack of maternity resources, where there are no hospitals or birth centres offering obstetric care and no obstetric providers.” Some 1119 of the nation’s 3143 counties are maternity care deserts, a 2% increase since the 2020 report, says the non-profit organisation that works to improve the health of mothers and babies.
“A person’s ability to have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy birth should not be dictated by where they live and their ability to access consistent, quality care, but today these factors make it dangerous to be pregnant and …
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