California Hospitals Close Maternity Units

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California's regulatory regime for birth centers is making it more dangerous to have a baby, midwives say

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About 1 in 6 California hospitals have shut maternity units over the past 12 years .

Declining birth rates, staffing shortages, and financial pressures have led 56 hospitals to shutter maternity units.

Local officials have a plan for a birth center in Quincy , where midwives deliver babies with backup from on-call doctors and standby perinatal unit at the hospital.

The state has taken two to four years to issue birth center licenses, according to a brief.

Legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year could ease onerous building codes.

The state last updated birth center regulations more than a decade ago .

Midwife-led births lead to fewer infant emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and neonatal deaths.

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