16 Louisiana hospitals receive 'birth ready' designation

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sixteen of the 49 Louisiana hospitals that regularly deliver babies have met new standards aimed at improving the state’s poor performance involving deaths resulting from pregnancy. The Louisiana Department of Health said Monday that 11 hospitals in the state are “Birth Ready” and five others met the higher designation of “Birth Ready+” under standards set by the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative. That’s a network of

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