Hemet Global Medical Center plans to have its labor and delivery department closed by the end of October, citing a shortage of physicians and low birth numbers at the hospital.
Hemet Global Medical Center has just announced their plans to completely shut down the labor and delivery department in just over two months.The decision, which comes after hospital officials considered a number of factors, will impact 35 people that are set to lose their jobs because of the closure. 'I've been here for 44 years, dedicated my entire career to working here and it breaks my heart,' said Ginny Packham, a nurse with the hospitals labor and delivery department.
'I don't believe anything is too late, because they haven't closed it,' he said. The hospital says that the decision was based on the low birth numbers and a shortage of physicians, something that the nurses admit is true. They say that when they started, the department had seven physicians. Now, there's one physician who works in the hospital two days a week.
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