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Sarah Jane Tribble

Can family doctors deliver rural America from its maternal health crisis?

Dr. Zita Magloire, a family medicine physician, says providing care to mothers before, during, and after pregnancy is "just essential care" that "affects the whole trajectory of life." (Sarah Jane Tribble/KFF Health News)

CAIRO, Ga. — Dr. Zita Magloire carefully adjusted a soft measuring tape across Kenadie Evans' pregnant belly.

Determining a baby's size during a 28-week obstetrical visit is routine. But Magloire, a family physician trained in obstetrics, knows that finding the mother's uterus and, thus, checking the baby, can be tricky for inexperienced doctors.

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