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50. What Happens When a Hospital Closes?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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What Happens When a Rural Hospital Closes?

Over 400 counties in the us. Have lost their sole hospital base, obstetric unit. When an o b unit closes, pregnant patients are forced to deliver their babies in other hospitals and farther away from where they live. Altogether, they might get a different kind of care before they deliver to recently,. monash university economist corey white and his colleagues wondered how these events leading up to a birth could impact outcomes after that includes for the pregnant patient and baby being born.

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