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Pending regulatory approval, OSF Healthcare will reopen the birthing unit at its Danville hospital while the birthing center at its Urbana hospital will close. The birthing center at OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center in Danville closed last October. Hospital officials cited staff shortages as the reason for what they said would be a temporary closure. Now, J-T Barnhart, the president of OSF’s Urbana hospital, Heart of Mary Medical Center, says the need for obstetrics care is actually greater in Danville than in the Champaign-Urbana area. So, he says his hospital’s Blessed Beginnings Birthing Center will close, and its staff encouraged to transfer to Danville.
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OSF HealthCare is reopening its Danville birthing center in September and closing labor and delivery services at OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center in Urbana.