The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex
and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than …

Understanding and addressing the unique health needs of people residing in rural America
is critical to the American Heart Association's pursuit of a world with longer, healthier lives …

The health workforce is a critical component of any health care system. There is no health
care without the people who provide service. As such, the health workforce has a central …

Background Reduced access to maternity care in rural areas of the United States presents a
significant burden to pregnant persons and infants. The objective of this study was to …

Maternity care access in the United States is in crisis. The American Congress of Obstetrics
and Gynecology projects that by 2030 there will be a nationwide shortage of 9,000 …

Introduction: Most family physicians do not provide abortion care, despite an apparent
alignment between the defined values of family medicine and provision of abortion in …

Objective Referrals are an important component of patient care, and have been increasing
over time. During pregnancy, people have intensive contact with the healthcare system, but …

Objective This study aimed to explore how new family medicine graduates who want to
include obstetrics in their scope of practice identify and select jobs and to understand how …

Introduction: As an increasing number of rural hospitals close their maternity care units,
many of the approximately 28 million reproductive-age women living in rural America do not …

Introduction Maldistribution of maternity care (MC) providers in the US limits access to full
spectrum MC services. Obstetricians are concentrated in urban areas with many rural areas …