Valley News - Limited by consolidation, funds to help improve rural birthing access

LEBANON — As more than one-third of New Hampshire’s hospital-based labor and delivery units have closed in the past two decades, some rural parts of the state have become “maternity deserts,” according to Dr. Timothy Fisher, an obstetrician at...

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