Obstetric Care Access at Rural and Urban Hospitals in the United States

JAMA. 2024 Dec 4:e2423010. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.23010. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Katy B Kozhimannil¹, Julia D Interrante¹, Caitlin Carroll¹, Emily C Sheffield¹, Alyssa H Fritz¹, Alecia J McGregor², Sara C Handley^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
⁴ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

PMID: 39630475
PMCID: PMC11618583 (available on 2025-06-04)
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.23010

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Plain language summary

This study quantifies losses and gains of obstetric care services at US rural and urban short-term acute care hospitals between 2010 and 2022.