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Rural Minnesota hospital finds a strategy to keep its maternity ward open

WBUR
Published September 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM CDT

As more rural hospitals shut down maternity wards, one hospital in Minnesota has a survival strategy that could spur others to imitate it.

Minnesota Public Radio’s Molly Castle Work reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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