North County Health Services maternity center to close Monday ; Patients being transitioned to Bay Area Midwifery
By BRANDI BOTTALICO; BRANDI BOTTALICO [email protected] | |
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The maternity center provided prenatal services such as checkups with an obstetrician and prescriptions to about 180 women a year, typically from low-income backgrounds. The center employed five people. There was also a family planning unit in the same center that closed in November.
"The patients have been given a warm hand off to the next provider," said
The County Executive office in conjunction with the
This closing, announced in February, comes after People's
People's said this was due to financial problems, such as a tax lien against the organization, and one of its main funding sources denying to supply them grant money.
Most patients are being transitioned to Bay Area Midwifery, Tucker said. While they no longer offer the clinical setting for expecting mothers, they do have the Healthy Start program where nurses make home visits to pregnant women for case management.
"Years ago we had all kinds of clinical services," she said. "Due to health care reform, we looked at the services we provide."
With the expansion of coverage from
"It really was a much better package for the women," she said.
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