rural obstetrics

Hospitals across the Midwest are bracing for cuts to services and staff in the wake of funding changes created in President Donald Trump's budget bill.

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.