Minnesota hospitals cut back on labor and delivery units
A growing number of women are foregoing the traditional labor and delivery unit in a hospital, and are instead giving birth in centers run by midwives.
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A growing number of women are foregoing the traditional labor and delivery unit in a hospital, and are instead giving birth in centers run by midwives.
WCCO is examining widespread service cuts at hospitals across Minnesota. Our months-long investigation found one significant trend among those cuts: Labor and delivery. As WCCO's Jonah Kaplan explains, many Minnesota mothers are now scrambling to find other options for their birth plans.
Access to health care when we need it most is something many of us have come to count on, but many communities are seeing cuts to services that limit that access.
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