Another hospital maternity unit is closing in rural north-central Pennsylvania, leaving a seven-county swath of the state — about the size of Connecticut — without labor and delivery care. The 25-bed UPMC Cole Hospital in Coudersport, Potter County, announced that it was closing its three-bed obstetrics unit effective April 7. The Pittsburgh-based health system will consolidate services at UPMC Wellsboro Hospital, about 35 miles away, while continuing to offer outpatient women's healthcare at Cole.
