Rural hospitals in Ohio, Illinois, New York, and Oregon are closing down their maternity wards due to a staff shortage and lower birth rates, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
University hospitals in Ashland, Ohio, OSF Healthcare in Pontiac, Illinois, and Trinity Health in Troy, New York, and Baker City, Oregon, will all shut down their maternity wards by the end of the year.
In Pontiac, the local hospital, OSF St. James, saw a decline in births. The number of deliveries went from 500 babies a year to less than 180 a year.
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Mike Rivero I would like to see a study of birth rate declines compared with vaccine compliance.