UMass Memorial Medical Center officials intend to work with transit officials to help redirect patients to other area hospitals, especially UMass Memorial Medical Center's campus in Worcester, if they follow through with a controversial Leominster maternity ward's closure.
UMass Memorial Medical Center officials intend to work with transit officials to help redirect patients to other area hospitals, especially UMass Memorial Medical Center's campus in Worcester, if they follow through with a Leominster maternity ward's closure.with state regulators outlining steps it would take to mitigate the impact of shuttering the birthing center.
Rebecca Rodman, senior counsel at Husch Blackwell LLP, wrote on UMass Memorial's behalf that there are four other hospitals in the area — the center's primary Worcester campus, Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Heywood Hospital in Gardner, and Emerson Hospital in Concord — that also offer inpatient maternity services and have"sufficient capacity" to absorb patients that today use the HealthAlliance-Clinton facility in Leominster.
The Department of Public Health previously deemed the Leominster facility an"essential service," a decision that required UMass Memorial to craft the plan filed Tuesday, according to theHospital officials told DPH in their latest correspondence that"financial support alone is not enough" to stave off closure of the site, pointing to persistent staffing challenges as a key factor.
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