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Labor pains: Delivery rooms closed at a Gallup hospital as employees resign
"Dr. Hannah Palm is the last OB-GYN at the unit. She announced her resignation a couple weeks ago, effective mid-December. Three others quit ahead of her within the last year.
On Sept. 22, she was informed that a shift was coming up in which there were no nurses available. The bare minimum is two nurses per shift, she said.
“My biggest fear was that a patient would show up who was high-risk,” she said. “We’d have no nurse, and then have, you know, a poor patient outcome.”
So she and hospital executives decided to close the unit. That means patients who’d spent nine months preparing to have a baby at the hospital this month had to scramble to find another hospital, typically in Albuquerque 130 miles away.
Palm said the last straw was when Walker, her mentor, resigned, and she saw how staff at the unit got “zero respect.”"
BY: PATRICK LOHMANN - OCTOBER 4, 2021 7:18 AM
https://sourcenm.com/2021/10/04/labor-pains/
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