As the number of women who die due to childbirth complications continues to grow in the United States, so too does the number of women who live with little or no access to maternal care, according to a new report.
More than 5.6 million women in the U.S. live in counties with limited or no access to maternity care services, according to a, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of pregnant people and babies.
And since last year's report, 70 counties in the U.S. have had worse access to maternity care, according to March of Dimes. The March of Dimes' report found that nearly every state has some areas of maternity care deserts, with the biggest prevalence in the Midwestern and Southern states.In Alabama, nearly 90% of women living in rural areas of the state have no maternity care hospitals within 30 minutes of their home, according to the report.
In the U.S., the national average of birthing people who receive no or inadequate prenatal care is nearly 15%., had a full-time maternity unit in its local hospital until January 2020, when the unit closed. "Within 30 minutes would be a time where if somebody was having an obstetric emergency, the provider would be able to intervene and help, so if someone was having a major complication in pregnancy and was two hours from us, that's a long time in an emergency," Stickrath said. "It's no different than if someone was having a heart attack or some other medical emergency."
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