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About 1 in 6 California hospitals have shut maternity units over the past 12 years .
Declining birth rates, staffing shortages, and financial pressures have led 56 hospitals to shutter maternity units.
Local officials have a plan for a birth center in Quincy , where midwives deliver babies with backup from on-call doctors and standby perinatal unit at the hospital.
The state has taken two to four years to issue birth center licenses, according to a brief.
Legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year could ease onerous building codes.
The state last updated birth center regulations more than a decade ago .
Midwife-led births lead to fewer infant emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and neonatal deaths.
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