"The sound of newborns crying along with the chimes of a lullaby announcing their arrival into the world will ring through the halls of Regional Medical Center starting next week as the East San Jose hospital reopens its long-closed labor and delivery ward. The restoration comes six months after Santa Clara County purchased the hospital from HCA Healthcare, one of the largest for-profit hospital chains in the nation,"
"From day one, our goal has been very simple: restore vital services for this community and strengthen the hospital's foundation for the future, Paul Lorenz, the CEO of the county-operated Santa Clara Valley Healthcare system, said at a Thursday morning press conference. The county reopened the trauma center along with stroke and heart attack services on its first day of ownership earlier this year. Since then, Lorenz said the hospital's patient volume has doubled."
"Labor and delivery services, which the county had previously promised to restore, will resume on Monday morning behind swinging doors with large lettering that reads, ShhhBabies Sleeping. The hospital is projected to see more than 1,000 births each year as it welcomes expectant mothers who, otherwise, would have traveled across town to give birth. In the last five years, more than half of the births at nearby O'Connor Hospital one of four county-owned hospitals have been by women living in East San Jose,"
Regional Medical Center in East San Jose will reopen its long-closed labor and delivery ward next week, restoring maternity services that were shut down in 2020. Santa Clara County purchased the hospital six months ago and has already reopened the trauma center as well as stroke and heart attack services. Patient volume at the hospital has doubled since those restorations. Labor and delivery will resume behind doors labeled "ShhhBabies Sleeping" and is projected to handle more than 1,000 births per year, reducing travel for East San Jose mothers who previously went to other hospitals.
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