Henderson Hospital to shutter maternity unit amid declining births - The Sun Daily
Henderson Hospital will stop offering maternity and neonatal intensive care services at the end of September, hospital officials announced today.
Officials cited the declining birth rate in Southern Nevada, physician retirements, obstetrics office closures and “a significant decrease in patients being referred by maternal fetal medicine specialists” that led to fewer NICU admissions.
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