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Hartford Healthcare must reopen the Windham Hospital maternity unit The first cry and breath of new life holds dear the hope and pride for the newborn and its family.  Eighty some years of this miracle has been nurtured at Windham Community Memorial Hospital in Willimantic.   Stories of the first birth of the year, of birth announcements, of sibling visits and dinner for the new parents made the birth experience more loving and healthy over the years. In the summer of 2020 in the throes of the COVID pandemic, Hartford Healthcare announced the permanent closing of the 80-year-old maternity unit.  They said that the dwindling numbers meant “women were choosing to go elsewhere.”   They failed to disclose their corporate moves to close the intensive care unit, and the loss of OB GYNs due to that.  During the pandemic, they held a Zoom meeting to tell the community of the future of childbirth at Windham Hospital.  There was none but transfers to other preferred sites.   They

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