September 18, 2023

Dr. Pam Evans, an obstetrician, poses in one of her exam rooms that is decorated with photographs of children she has delivered at the Henry County Medical Center in Paris, Tenn., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. With the closing of the maternity ward at the facility in early September, Evans fears that things like preterm deliveries, infant mortality and low-birthweight babies — a measure in which the county already ranks poorly — are bound to get worse. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)