Large stretches of California are without maternity care as hospitals close labor wards

By Kristen Hwang, Ana B. Ibarra and Erica Yee | CalMatters El Centro Regional Medical Center delivered the last baby at its 67-year-old maternity ward in early January. Then it closed its obstetrics department, leaving just one other hospital to deliver the approximately 2,500 babies born every…

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