Despite closures at other rural hospitals across North Carolina, the labor and delivery unit at UNC Health Chatham is a recent addition.

For the first time in nearly 30 years, babies will be delivered at Chatham Hospital in Siler City with the opening ... which uses federal data, North Carolina's maternal mortality rate was 27.6 ...

Before the new maternity center at UNC Chatham Hospital ... Boulevard in Siler City, just greeted its first newborn on Sept. 15. While babies have been delivered in the hospital's emergency ...