In some rural areas, births have dropped by three-quarters since the late 1950s, and hospitals are shuttering labor and delivery units, leaving mothers little access to care when they need it.

That may not be changing anytime soon. The state has dedicated resources toward solutions, such as funding a mobile health care unit, developing scholarship programs for doctors to stay in rural ...

For a struggling rural hospital, closing the labor and delivery unit may be an alternative to closing the entire hospital. That’s in part because labor and delivery units can be costly to operate.

East Texas Community Health Services is rolling out a mobile health services program with their mobile health unit. CEO Anita Humphreys said they’ve had the truck for six years and typically use ...

The funding will establish a new Rural Mental Health Research Unit and pay for a five-year programme and three new posts to look at inequalities across the two counties.