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How a community in Maine is fighting to save their birthing center

With maternity care deserts growing around the country, a grassroots coalition in Maine launched a strategic attack to prevent the proposed closure of a rural labor and delivery center.

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With maternity care deserts growing around the country, a grassroots coalition in Maine launched a strategic attack to prevent the proposed closure of a rural labor and delivery center. The hospital they were counting on for the birth, in the coastal town of Damariscotta, may close its labor and delivery unit in December. Just to get up to Damariscotta from where we live is a pretty windy little state road that is not very well plowed in the winter," Romaine says. When labor and delivery services aren't accessible, giving birth becomes riskier. And in Maine, where 11 birthing units have shut down in a decade, an exceptionally strategic local group is taking a stand to save this one. On August 6, trustees of MaineHealth, the state's largest nonprofit health system, will vote whether to close or preserve the obstetrics department at MaineHealth Lincoln Campus, known locally as Miles Hospital. It's making the case that the birthing unit provides a life-and-death service the state can't afford to lose. "Labor and delivery units all over the state already have wait listsWe refuse to let the preventable deaths of our friends and their babies happen when the issue is whether or not we can find staff to work here," said cofounder Margaret Reynolds, speaking at a press conference alongside Democratic gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree.

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From the storyWith maternity care deserts growing around the country, a grassroots coalition in Maine launched a strategic attack to prevent the proposed closure of a rural labor and delivery center.

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From the storyWith maternity care deserts growing around the country, a grassroots coalition in Maine launched a strategic attack to prevent the proposed closure of a rural labor and delivery center.

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From the storyWith maternity care deserts growing around the country, a grassroots coalition in Maine launched a strategic attack to prevent the proposed closure of a rural labor and delivery center.

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From the storyThe hospital they were counting on for the birth, in the coastal town of Damariscotta, may close its labor and delivery unit in December.

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From the storyThe hospital they were counting on for the birth, in the coastal town of Damariscotta, may close its labor and delivery unit in December.

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