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That's an awfully leading headline. Pretty sure this is the real cause: > The hospital’s statement also said that the closure comes as the number of deliveries
by kyrofa 4y ago
That's an awfully leading headline. Pretty sure this is the real cause:
> The hospital’s statement also said that the closure comes as the number of deliveries at Bonner continues to decline, with only 265 babies delivered last year and fewer than 10 pediatric patients admitted.
Maintaining a L&D wing is expensive. If you don't have enough business to make it worth it, makes sense to cut it.
- aiappreciator 4y agoThis, pediatric and maternity wards are closing en masse in China. Its not because of any laws, its simply because of collapsing fertility rates. The rural doctors generally want to make an escape for the cities with higher pay and greater career potential, but want a convenient excuse to ditch their patients, what better virtuous excuse than this?
- DoreenMichele 4y agoThere's also a midwife service that will deliver your baby at home. Giving birth doesn't necessarily require medical intervention. When it will, it's sometimes known ahead of time. Cesarean Section is often a scheduled surgery, not an emergency surgery. A search suggests C-section deliveries have risen to an alarming 32 percent of US deliveries but only 17 percent of deliveries are an emergency C-section. The rest are scheduled.
- trilbyglens 4y agoThe very fact that hospitals are seen as businesses and not as services is really fucked up.
- kyrofa 4y agoThat's just the way it is in the US.