12,000 Square Miles Without Obstetrics? It’s a Possibility in West Texas | Kaiser Health News

12,000 Square Miles Without Obstetrics? It’s a Possibility in West Texas | Kaiser Health News: Big Bend Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in a sparsely populated region of West Texas, announced that because of a nursing shortage its labor and delivery unit must close for days at a time and patients must go instead to a hospital an hour away.

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