text:  let's start with this according to a new study over 500 hospitals have closed their labor and delivery department since 2010 rural hospitals have been impacted the most i i've covered this worked with the march of dimes as they were looking into this gone to rural communities because it's something like one in three counties or something impacted like by this what is the reason and the impact not just to new moms because if it impacts moms it impacts families and all of us