Beverly hospital to continue natural birthing center
Beverly Hospital trustees yesterday said that they would continue the hospital’s natural birthing center, one of only two such facilities in the state. The declaration made in a statement.
At the same time the statements also made it clear that the center’s future is still very much in question.
Last week, the hospital management said the birth center’s future was being scrutinized because the facility was “experiencing a significant rise in the cost of malpractice insurance premiums.”
That prompted a barrage of letters, fliers, pickets, and an Internet campaign to save the center. Organizers say they are very much continuing the fight.
Before this, as a phalanx of sign-carrying mothers rallied outside, their babies bundled against the earlymorning cold.