A Striking Gap Between Deaths of Black and White Babies Plagues the South [kffhealthnews.org]

Ingrid Cockhren (PACEs Connection Staff) 6/1/2312:00 PM

By Lauren Sausser, Photo: Getty Images, Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health News

Years before the Bamberg County Hospital closed in 2012, and the next-closest hospital in neighboring Barnwell shut its doors in 2016, those facilities had stopped delivering babies.

These days, there’s not even an ultrasound machine in this rural county 60 miles south of Columbia, much less an obstetrician. Pregnant women here are left with few options for care.

Federally qualified health centers offer prenatal services in nearby Fairfax and Barnwell, but only when a pregnancy is uncomplicated and only through about 34 weeks of gestation.

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