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Ocala, Fla., hospital to cut obstetrics program.
Publication: Ocala Star-Banner (Ocala, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 27-OCT-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Ocala Star-Banner
Byline: Catherine Dolinski
Oct. 27--OCALA -- Trustees of Ocala Regional Medical Center voted Wednesday night to quit the business of delivering babies, leaving Munroe Regional Medical Center as the only hospital in Marion County providing labor and delivery services.
The decision by Ocala Regional's board of trustees ends the hospital's 10-year-old obstetrics program at the end of January. Women in their third trimester still wishing to deliver at the hospital will be able to do so.
"The board has labored over the decision for over a month now, and they have come to the conclusion that, due to the low volume, considerable financial investment needed and the competition for capital resources, we will be exiting obstetrics," Allison Campbell, spokeswoman for...
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