Word: chiricahua
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...front passenger seat of a car where those highways cross. Women lacking transportation, a common problem in this working-poor area, have given birth in ambulances. Others may be giving birth across the border in Mexico or at home, says Dr. Jennifer Ryan, CEO of the Elfrida-based Chiricahua Community Health Centers...
Health-care administrators in Cochise County plan to open a birthing center in Bisbee, which would be run by the federally qualified Chiricahua clinic and would be able to shelter doctors from high malpractice-insurance premiums. If all goes well, the center will open next spring. But for Valdez and many other new mothers, that will be too late. Valdez doesn't know whom to blame--doctors, lawyers or insurance companies. She just knows that come late July, she will have to spend the final, awkward week of her pregnancy waddling around as a houseguest. That's enough to make...