obstetrics

"Idaho is digging a physician workforce hole that will take years, if not decades, to fill." -Susie Keller, Idaho Medical Association CEO

Starting this fall, a new OB-GYN clinic will open at TriState Health in Clarkston, Washington.

Lawmakers, including Senator Maria Cantwell from Washington, recently introduced a bill to try to sustain maternity wards in rural hospitals. But the additional funding might not be enough.

Researchers at Washington State University found that over 41 percent of American women between the ages of 15 and 49 don’t have access to an abortion provider within a 30-minute drive.

Three of the 12 women enrolled in a study of progesterone to reverse a medication-based abortion required ambulance transport to a hospital for treatment of severe vaginal bleeding.