LICH Obstetrics Decline

By on May 28, 2009 10:25 pm in Health, News

As reported by The Brooklyn Paper:

Long Island College Hospital is in the midst of a precipitous drop in births this year, months after threatening to shut its maternity ward, a decline that is resulting in large increases in deliveries at other Brooklyn hospitals, including a record number of births in 48 hours at one medical center.

Read more in CHB.

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2 Responses to LICH Obstetrics Decline

  1. A CH Mom May 29, 2009 at 1:34 pm #

    Duh! If you don’t let people know that you weren’t allowed to close OB as planned, then of course deliveries will decline. People still think OB was already shut down!

  2. Bobby May 30, 2009 at 11:45 pm #

    I had my daughter delivered at the LICH last year, it was great, good staff, took also birth classes over there.

    Nice neighborood hospital.