d3sign/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Early on in her pregnancy, Tori Wapsheli made plans to deliver her second child in the same hospital where she had her first Astria Toppenish Hospital on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State.
But with just three months left in her pregnancy, the hospital suddenly shut down its Family Maternity Center, leaving Wapsheli and others in the community scrambling. In a news release, the hospital cited higher costs, reduction of Medicaid reimbursement from 150% to 100%, inability to recruit enough staff and a 50% decrease in deliveries as the reason for the closure.
"Just being so far out here, Toppenish was the place that would have worked easier," Ciera Wheeler, who was more than 7 ½ months along when the pregnancy ward closed, told ABC News.
Patients in active labor who come to Astria Toppenish when there s no time to stabilize and transfer them before delivery will now have their babies delivered in the emergency room and then, a
d3sign/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Early on in her pregnancy, Tori Wapsheli made plans to deliver her second child in the same hospital where she had her first Astria Toppenish Hospital on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State.
But with just three months left in her pregnancy, the hospital suddenly shut down its Family Maternity Center, leaving Wapsheli and others in the community scrambling. In a news release, the hospital cited higher costs, reduction of Medicaid reimbursement from 150% to 100%, inability to recruit enough staff and a 50% decrease in deliveries as the reason for the closure.
"Just being so far out here, Toppenish was the place that would have worked easier," Ciera Wheeler, who was more than 7 ½ months along when the pregnancy ward closed, told ABC News.
Patients in active labor who come to Astria Toppenish when there s no time to stabilize and transfer them before delivery will now have their babies delivered in the emergency room and then, a
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d3sign/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Early on in her pregnancy, Tori Wapsheli made plans to deliver her second child in the same hospital where she had her first Astria Toppenish Hospital on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State.
But with just three months left in her pregnancy, the hospital suddenly shut down its Family Maternity Center, leaving Wapsheli and others in the community scrambling. In a news release, the hospital cited higher costs, reduction of Medicaid reimbursement from 150% to 100%, inability to recruit enough staff and a 50% decrease in deliveries as the reason for the closure.
"Just being so far out here, Toppenish was the place that would have worked easier," Ciera Wheeler, who was more than 7 ½ months along when the pregnancy ward closed, told ABC News.
Patients in active labor who come to Astria Toppenish when there s no time to stabilize and transfer them before delivery will now have their babies delivered in the emergency room and then, a
d3sign/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Early on in her pregnancy, Tori Wapsheli made plans to deliver her second child in the same hospital where she had her first Astria Toppenish Hospital on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State.
But with just three months left in her pregnancy, the hospital suddenly shut down its Family Maternity Center, leaving Wapsheli and others in the community scrambling. In a news release, the hospital cited higher costs, reduction of Medicaid reimbursement from 150% to 100%, inability to recruit enough staff and a 50% decrease in deliveries as the reason for the closure.
"Just being so far out here, Toppenish was the place that would have worked easier," Ciera Wheeler, who was more than 7 ½ months along when the pregnancy ward closed, told ABC News.
Patients in active labor who come to Astria Toppenish when there s no time to stabilize and transfer them before delivery will now have their babies delivered in the emergency room and then, a