Rural hospitals could be putting pregnant women and babies at risk by slashing labor and delivery services across North Carolina.
Natasha Fuller delivered her two children at Charles A. Cannon Memorial Hospital in remote and mountainous Avery County in 2011 and 2014. Now, she works with App Health Care, assisting other pregnant Avery County women who no longer have that same option.
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