The reality is that fewer resources in the urban core don't bode well for the community and, yet again, signal the corporate medical industrial complex failing in this cowtown . . . Check-it:
Around 40 union members and registered nurses gathered on a Monday evening under the steady drill of cicadas to protest the impending shutdown of the Research Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit and labor and delivery services.
Since HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest hospital system, took over the hospital in 2003, it has “driven away specialized health care providers and moved services to other facilities,” nurses said in an Aug. 4 press release, reducing access to crucial medical care for Missouri’s most vulnerable populations.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Nurses hold protest vigil at Kansas City hospital that shut down delivery services for mothers
The planned closure follows the shutdown of Providence Medical Service's labor and delivery program, and will expand the area of the Kansas City metro without maternal care services.
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