It keeps happening. News 5 is learning more about the decision from University Hospitals to discontinue labor and delivery services at Samaritan Medical Center in Ashland.
Staff learned the news Wednesday. The unit has been open for more than 11 years; it’s the only labor and delivery facility in Ashland County. Over the past year and a half, the hospital has been trying to retain and recruit the specialty healthcare workers needed to maintain the unit without much success. Thursday afternoon, UH leaders spoke with News 5 Anchor Courtney Gousman about their plan for patients.
The labor and delivery unit has been operating at UH Samaritan Medical Center since the hospital opened its doors in 1912. And it’s the third UH labor and delivery unit to shut down in the past year in our area. The hospital’s chief operating officer, Sylvia Radziszewski, told us the news of those services being discontinued has been hard to digest.
Radziszewski said there’s been a decline in births in the area due to an aging population. Pre-pandemic, about 300 babies were born at Samaritan each year. This year they’re expecting to deliver about 180 babies. Radziszewski said one of the biggest reasons for the closure is the shortages they’re seeing when it comes to staffing specialty providers.
Pre- and post-natal care options will continue at UH Samaritan. To make up for the loss of its labor and delivery services, UH is partnering with Ohio Health in Mansfield to deliver its patient’s babies. That Level II Trauma hospital is about 15 miles, roughly a half-hour’s drive, from UH Samaritan.
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