The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America — Apple News In Conversation The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any wealthy nation. Here’s why.

#PregnancyInUSA #MaternalMortality🔝 #Race #Profit #HealthCareDesert #DoctorConvience #TreatedAsChildAnimal apple.news/AX-bJ1YGORA-...

What We Name, We Can Dismantle: Sunsetting the “Health Care Desert” Imaginary — Madeline T. Morcelle What we name, we can dismantle. It’s time to shift our language to name the structural violence in sexual and reproductive health care barriers.

📝 Read the updated post, “What We Name, We Can Dismantle: Sunsetting the #HealthCareDesert Imaginary,” on my personal blog.

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“I’ll refer you to podiatry to evaluate your foot pain” says my 26-ish-year-old PCP. So I get a call from one of the 2 podiatry offices in the entire county and they inform me I can be seen in March. Of 2026. For my excruciating, bilateral, dynamic foot pain. #HealthcareDesert #Rural #Healthcare

North Adams SVHC Urgent Care closing Friday; future remains uncertain A sign posted on the front door listed shortened hours in August and a person who answered the phone confirmed the clinic is closing.

Thanks, Trump.

#NorthAdams SVHC #UrgentCare closing Friday; Future Remains Uncertain.

NB: this was the *only* urgent care location in northern #BerkshireCounty.

#RuralHealthcare #HealthcareDesert #BerkshireCounty #WesternMass #NEISvoid #Mapoli

One-third of Americans still live in pharmacy, hospital or provider health care desert More than 120 million Americans lack proper access to health care services, a new study from Good Rx Research found.

Roughly 81% of counties across the United States are a #HealthCareDesert, meaning the majority of the population lacks access to either #pharmacies, primary care, #hospitals, hospital beds, trauma centers or community health centers.

For a national mag, still looking for a US woman who had a #heartattack #stroke #accident or other #health emergency made worse by living far from a hospital in a #healthcaredesert. Could be #rural, #NativeAmerican, #urbanblack or others. Please spread the word, and DM if this is you. Thanks!

Kitsap could lose last hospital in United negotiations | Kitsap Daily News Patients are finding themselves in a care desert

Oh look, typical insurance Bullshit. #HealthcareDesert

@unitedhealthcareus.bsky.social is playing with tens of thousands of lives if they don't renew with #VirginiaMasonFranciscanHealth to keep remote hospitals in network.

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If you're a US woman who had a #heartattack, #stroke, #accident or other emergency but live far from a hospital in a #healthcaredesert, I'd love to interview you for an article for a national mag. This could be someone #rural, #NativeAmerican, #urbanblack or anyone else too far from care. Thanks

What Killed Harmony Ball-Stribling? One woman’s death reveals the myriad ways in which social and economic factors endanger pregnant women in the United States.

Dear God, what a story. A combo of #anti-abortionhate, #healthcaredesert, #racism, #woman-hate, #capitalism, #Mississippi, and a few other things. Gift article. #Recommendedreading.
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/h...

#caregiverstress #caregiverburnout
#healthcaredesert
#mentalhealthcaredesert
#ruralamerica
#trumpistan