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In Rural WNC, Induced Births Are On The Rise


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The closure of several labor and delivery units at hospitals across Western North Carolina means more mothers and their doctors are planning births differently. Dr. Suzanne Dixon has been an OBGYN with the Mountain Area Health Education Center for about 8 years. Most of the time she works in Asheville but she spends 2 days a week in Franklin at Mission Women’s Care. “I’ve been the only one doing the women’s work at that practice,” says Dixon. Dixon says that since Angel Medical Center closed it
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