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Maternity care at Maryborough hospital in central Victoria transformed with new midwifery model

Anna Bianchi delivered Georgie Lovel's baby Ezra at Maryborough and District Hospital. (ABC News: Rochelle Kirkham)

In some regional communities, women are having babies on the side of the road and staff shortages have led to maternity ward closures. 

But one community in central Victoria, where safety concerns several years ago prompted a review, has turned its service around to tell a different story. 

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