Massachusetts health officials are calling a Leominster hospital’s controversial proposal to close a maternity ward inadequate. The UMass Memorial Health Alliance-Clinton Hospital’s Leominster campus was set to shut down its inpatient maternity unit later this month. Last month, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health pressed hospital administrators for a more detailed plan. “Based upon the information provided to date, the…
, Mayor Dean Mazzarella said the hospital had"failed miserably" to maintain access to maternal care.
"We thank the Department of Public Health for taking the full development of a plan seriously and for looking out for the most vulnerable in our community. Their response today solidifies that the hospital was supposed to submit a plan, not a plan to complete a plan," Mazzarella said in a statement Friday.
The DPH asked the hospital for more information, including on how patients in labor would make it to other hospitals if the center were to close. "These aren't widgets. These are people. This is health care," Mazzarella said Friday."Every day, it becomes even more and more important that this maternity ward stay here, and also that we are on guard here to make sure that they don't take any more services."
"In line with regulatory processes, the Department of Public Health has shared supplemental questions in response to our previously submitted plans to ensure regional access to labor and delivery services upon the proposed closure of HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital's inpatient maternity unit in Leominster," the hospital said in a statement.
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