University Hospitals Lake West Medical Center in Willoughby latest Ohio hospital outpost to end maternity services
An Ohio hospital recently ended their maternity services and another hospital is ending their labor and delivery services later this month.
“We really made a decision that we could not maintain the same level of quality and competency with our staff and the care there, so we made the difficult decision to end maternity services at Shelby,” Baumgardner said. “The revenue had dropped because of delivering fewer babies and one of the challenges with maternity units is you have to maintain minimum staffing regardless of whether or not we have babies being delivered or not,” Baumgardner said. “We made the decision purely based on whether we can maintain the right level of quality moving forward and there was never really a discussion around finances in regards to this particular decision,” Baumgardner said.
More than 500,000 babies were born to women who live in rural counties, but only seven percent of obstetric providers practice in rural areas, according to the“The people who are most burdened by that closure are the ones that have the fewest resources to be able to travel somewhere else,” Interrante said. The Willoughby hospital will consolidate their labor and delivery services at University Hospitals TriPoint Medical Center about 15 miles away.
The number of babies born each year at Lake West hospital has been declining, but she was unable to say exactly how babies have been born there annually
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