Maternity care in rural areas continues to be a national priority with roughly half of rural counties lacking a hospital with obstetric services. With this project, the FMT will describe Critical Access Hospital (CAH) performance through these primary objectives:

1. Describe the quality of maternity care in CAHs;
2. Identify relationships between maternity care quality performance and CAH characteristics; and
3. Identify quality measures related to maternity and birth outcomes that are most feasible and relevant for CAHs and rural hospitals.