OhioHealth’s Shelby Hospital stopped providing maternity services after February, and University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center in Willoughby is ending labor and delivery services April 15.
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Infant mortality has gradually gone down overall in the last decade in Ohio, but the infant mortality rate for Black Ohioans is 164% higher than for white Ohioans, according to a recent report from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio. OhioHealth started evaluating the maternity services at Shelby about two years ago when the hospital was averaging about 150 deliveries a year, Baumgardner said.
More than 500,000 babies were born to women who live in rural counties, but only seven percent of obstetric providers practice in rural areas, according to the March of Dimes Maternity Care Deserts report from 2022. The number of babies born each year at Lake West hospital has been declining, but she was unable to say exactly how babies have been born there annually
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