{"id":5739,"date":"2023-08-02T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/02\/texas-maternal-care-deserts-put-pregnant-mothers-at-risk-march-of-dimes-study-says\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:10:18","slug":"texas-maternal-care-deserts-put-pregnant-mothers-at-risk-march-of-dimes-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/02\/texas-maternal-care-deserts-put-pregnant-mothers-at-risk-march-of-dimes-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217; maternal care &#8216;deserts&#8217; put pregnant mothers at risk, March of Dimes study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Factors including Texas&#8217; lack of family planning clinics and continued refusal to accept the federal Medicaid expansion have perpetuated maternal care &#8220;deserts&#8221; that increase health risks for pregnant women, according to a new March of Dimes report. While populous counties such as Bexar provide full access to maternal care, nearly 47% of the state&#8217;s 254 counties are considered maternal care deserts in the nonprofit&#8217;s latest analysis. Nearby Atascosa, Bandera and Wilson counties all qualify as deserts because they have no birthing hospitals or other facilities providing obstetric care, the data show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factors including Texas&#8217; lack of family planning clinics and continued refusal to accept the federal Medicaid expansion have perpetuated maternal care &#8220;deserts&#8221; that increase health risks for pregnant women, according to a new March of Dimes report. While populous counties such as Bexar provide full access to maternal care, nearly 47% of the state&#8217;s 254 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}