6 counties in northern Pennsylvania will soon have no maternity care
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Penn Highlands Healthcare Elk Hospital is closing its obstetrics unit May 1, leaving a six-county area of north-central Pennsylvania — twice the size of Delaware — without hospital maternity care.
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