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| 👋 Welcome to the weekend, readers of The Short List! I'm Nicole Fallert, and I'm excited to dive into a few of this week's most interesting reads from the USA TODAY newsroom. |
| 🟣 About two million rural women of childbearing age live in maternity care deserts, at least 25 miles away from a labor and delivery unit, a USA TODAY analysis found. Women of color are even more vulnerable, statistics show, and the federal government has only recently started to identify the problem. In a four-part series, USA TODAY examines the growing lack of maternal health care in America's rural communities of color. |
| Delivery or death: The lack of accessible women's reproductive health care doesn't affect communities equally. |
| • | Rooted in history: Experts call today's maternal health disparities and lack of access to care a ''reverberation'' of the history of slavery. | | • | The Biden administration has renewed attention to this issue. But even with the promise of more funding, rural hospitals can't always afford to keep obstetrics – one of the most expensive and least lucrative services for providers. | | • | Across communities: Native Americans travel among the farthest in the nation for maternal care. | | • | The data says it all: The median distance to a hospital with a labor and delivery ward in urban areas is about nine miles, but in rural areas, it's more than twice that. | |
| 👉 Stay tuned: Part four of this series will be coming out next week! |
 | | In rural America, maternal health care is vanishing. | | USA TODAY | |
| Here are more must-reads below 👇 See you next week! |
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