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Los Angeles County: the epicenter of urban maternity ward closings
LOS ANGELES — Simone DeRoche, expecting her fourth child in December, had her birth plan set: delivering at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, where her three other kids were born. But when she received the text from her OB-GYN last week that the hospital will …