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One Maine community's fight to save a birthing center

NPR | By Elaine Appleton-Grant

Published August 4, 2026 at 4:16 PM EDT

In mid-coast Maine a grassroots coalition is fighting to prevent the proposed closure of Miles Hospital's labor and delivery center.