Closing OBGYN Care

Recorded:
Oct 2024
Speaker
Dr. Caitlin Bernard
Duration
00:00:56
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TRANSCRIPT

Dr. Caitlin Bernard: Last year, two of our Northern Indiana maternity hospitals closed. The OBGYN care ended at those hospitals, and that’s really kind of multifactorial, but definitely a big part of it is just not having OBGYN coverage, and when they try to get locums, which are like visiting physicians, it’s very expensive. And so it’s just not feasible to to have OBGYN coverage, so they close those. Then there was actually an article that came out recently that a woman died of an ectopic pregnancy in Northern Indiana because she had gone to one of those hospitals that previously had OBGYN care, and it took them 8 hours to transfer her from that hospital to the main hospital that has OBGYN care, and nobody would come in and take care of her. I mean there were no OBGYNs. This story reportedly is that a general surgeon was called to come in and take care of her, and he refused, and by the time that she got to the other hospital she died.

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