Published on April 01, 2024

We have a stable workforce': North Carolina hospital defying the odds of maternity care closures

As hospitals and health systems continue to face ongoing maternity care cuts and closures in 2024, Chatham Maternity Care Center at Siler City, N.C.-based Chatham Hospital, part of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, is working hard to defy those odds.

"We're just able to really provide a different level of experience," Jeff Strickler, CEO of Chatham Hospital, told Becker's. "Some of the things that we hear from the families that choose to deliver with us, they talk about the experience they have being able to deliver close to home, and being able to have their extended family able to visit with them."

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