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Another Mississippi hospital to suspend labor, delivery services April 1
A hospital on the Mississippi Gulf Coast will droop labor and supply providers April 1 due to a scarcity of obstetricians, additional reducing well being care entry in a state that has seen different hospitals shut down birthing facilities or intensive look after new child infants.
Singing River Gulfport stated in its announcement Thursday that hospital leaders hope the suspension of providers might be non permanent, WXXV-TV reported.
The transfer follows an announcement from a New Orleans-based well being care system final Could that it could cease delivering infants at a hospital it operates on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Ochsner Well being System cited a comparatively low variety of births and the departure of the obstetrician who had delivered infants at Ochsner Medical Heart-Hancock in Bay St. Louis.
Mississippi has the nation’s highest fetal mortality fee, highest toddler mortality fee, highest pre-term delivery fee and is among the many worst states for maternal mortality. Black girls are practically thrice extra prone to die attributable to childbirth than white girls in Mississippi.
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One other Mississippi hospital will cease delivering infants and birthing providers beginning April 1 on account of a scarcity of obstetricians.
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Delta Regional Medical Heart in Greenville closed its neonatal intensive care unit in July due to monetary strain. It was the one such unit within the impoverished Delta, and the closure meant lifesaving look after unwell or untimely new child infants was about two hours away by automobile, on the College of Mississippi Medical Heart in Jackson.
In October, Greenwood Leflore Hospital introduced it was completely closing its labor and supply unit. The publicly owned hospital in Greenwood stated it couldn’t pay aggressive wages and retain skilled nurses.
The publicly owned Singing River Well being System was put up on the market months in the past. The system stated Thursday that staff at its Gulfport hospital can switch to different places as labor and supply providers are suspended. The system additionally has hospitals in Ocean Springs and Pascagoula.
Memorial Hospital in Gulfport nonetheless gives labor and supply providers.