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The Mahaska Health hospital in Oskaloosa, Iowa, includes a building built in 1928. The facility was expanded in the 1960s, during a rural-hospital building boom fueled by federal incentives. Such expansions coincided with the baby boom, during which hospitals handled a surge in births. The annual number of babies born to Mahaska County residents has dropped by more than half since the baby boom’s height. (Tony Leys/KFF Health News/TNS)Fewer than half of rural U.S. hospitals offer labor and delivery services. In some areas, births have dropped by three-quarters since the baby boom’s peak.
Originally published at Kff Health News