In the last eight years, women living in counties in one-third of the country have faced an abysmal reality: they live in a maternity care desert, which means a place where there are no hospitals or birth centers or even any obstetric clinicians. That reality has persisted: in its new 2026 report on women’s access to ob-gyn services, released on August 11, the March of Dimes found that 34.6% of U….
More Than One Third of U.S. Counties Are Maternity Care Deserts
