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Newport Hospital birthing center will remain open

Newport Hospital’s birthing center, other Brown Health facilities, to remain open – for now
Brown Health was mulling closing Newport’s birthing center, but the move drew fierce opposition from residents, Newport’s City Council and lawmakers.
Brown University Health commits to keeping Newport Hospital Birthing Center open. For now.
Organizers of a rally in front of Newport City Hall Tuesday night to push for the continued operation of the Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center at Newport Hospital are in a cautiously celebratory mood after the hospital’s operator committed to keeping it open for the next year.
Newport Hospital birthing center to remain open. Why it may not be long term
Newport Hospital's Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center will remain open; however, Brown University Health is not committing to the center's long-term operation. In a memo released Tuesday, July 29, Brown Health CEO John Fernandez explained what's to come for the Newport Hospital birthing center.
Birthing center at Newport Hospital to remain open
Brown University Health plans to keep open the birthing center at Newport Hospital — at least for now. The Noreen Stoner Drexel Birthing Center was facing possible elimination due to budgetary challenges for Brown University Health and other healthcare providers in Rhode Island.
City Councilors raise concerns to cuts on Newport Hospital birthing center. What to know
Amid local concerns that cuts will be made to Newport Hospital ’s birthing center, the Newport City Council has scheduled a special meeting for July 15 to discuss a resolution advocating for the center’s “full operation.”
With Newport Hospital’s birthing center at risk amid budget woes, the city council is fired up
Tonight’s council meeting comes after at least 300 women has their annual OB-GYN appointments at Newport Women’s Health Services unexpectedly postponed.
Newport to hold rally for endangered hospital birthing center
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) — Aquidneck Island residents are planning a rally to show support for the birthing center at Newport Hospital. It follows a July 15 resolution passed by Newport City Council urging Brown Health not to cut the center as it’s the only one of its kind on the island.
'It’s deplorable': Residents, council plead to keep Newport Hospital birthing center open
Mother after mother came forward at the meeting, sharing stories of the care and support they experienced while at Newport Hospital’s birthing center.
Brown Health announces Newport Hospital birthing center will remain open
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NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee has announced the birthing center at Newport Hospital will not be cut. Advocates had been rallying in recent days to save the facility after ...