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With rural America hemorrhaging healthcare providers, the federal government is investing dollars and attention to increase the ranks of these clinicians.
Family medicine doctors already deliver most of rural America's babies, and efforts to train more in obstetrics care are seen as a way to cope with labor and delivery unit closures.