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Vol. 38 No. 51
West Sub patient safety concerns increase
Employees sound alarms after midwives and family medicine doctors are told they can no longer deliver babies at the hospital By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
Medical professionals at West Suburban Medical Center continue to decry worsening patient safety at the hospital after midwives and family medicine doctors were told Nov. 18 that they would no longer have birthing privileges at the hospital. They said they were told that the move is because of liability insurance issues, although they have been performing labor and delivery services there for more than 20 years. And in a new turn, the week after the midwives and family medicine doctors’ last day on Dec. 6, West Suburban CEO Manoj Prasad said that they may return, although with changes to the contract. He said this had been an option all along. See WEST SUB on page 3
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