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Interview with Dr. Christ-Ann Magloire at North Shore Medical Center
Dr. Christ-Ann Magloire on whether a woman can have a VBAC? (Vaginal Birth After C-Section)
Dr. Christ-Ann Magloire was recently featured in the NY Times on Dec 8, 2024
Most Rural Hospitals Have Closed Their Maternity Wards, Study Finds
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Dr. Christ-Ann Magloire, a private-practice obstetrician in Miami, recently lived through one such instance when the maternity ward where she delivered babies abruptly shut down in February.
“It was terrible,” Dr. Magloire said, recalling how she had to quickly find hospitals that could care for her patients scheduled for cesarean sections.
The hospital where she worked, North Shore Medical Center, had typically delivered over 1,500 babies each year. It is the second hospital in Miami to end obstetric services in less than five years. Nearby Hialeah Hospital, which had delivered about 700 babies annually, closed its maternity ward in 2021.
Dr. Magloire sees mostly Medicaid patients, and said they had struggled to relocate their care to other Miami hospitals. She worries that their care could suffer as other hospitals find their own maternity wards more crowded.
“Most can barely get to my office because of transportation issues,” she said. “Now they might be delivering in a different county, where their family can’t visit. It’s traumatizing.”