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The message from Big Bend Regional Medical Center was stark: The only hospital in a sparsely populated region of far West Texas notified local physicians in July that because of a nursing shortage, its labor and delivery unit needed to temporarily close its doors and that women in labor should instead be sent to the next-closest hospital — an hour’s …

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