"This is a privilege that we don't take lightly," Mercy Health President Bob Baxter said on Tuesday at the first of two public forums on the hospital's future.
As McLaren St. Luke’s continues to address the compounding challenges of COVID-19, the national staffing shortage and exclusion from the Paramount insurance product, the hospital has made the difficult decision to discontinue providing obstetrics and birthing services. The hospital will close its obstetrics physician offices in Holland and Perrysburg and end labor and deliveries at McLaren St. Luke’s, between Aug. 31-Sept. 30, 2022. “The decision to discontinue delivering babies at our hospital has been.