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This New Jersey hospital will stop providing care for pregnant women. What does it mean for women.

Pregnant women in Cape May County will soon gotta go even further for pregnancy care.

September 15, Cape Town Regional Medical Center. in Cape May Courthouse Section of Middle Township will cease midwifery services, spokeswoman Susan Steger said. for hospital said in email.

“This development very disappointing to everyone in the Cape Town Regional Health System,” Stager said.

Cape Regional is the only hospital in country.

There were only two obstetrician-gynecologists in the institution. One leaves for another job at Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, about 20 miles away, Steger said.

Cape Regional works with Shore Medical Center – the nearest facility – and AtlantiCare “will develop transfer agreements for the rapid transfer of obstetric patients.” who gift in The Emergency Department of the Cape Regional Medical Center,” she said.

AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center-Mainland Campus is located approximately 30 miles from Cape Regional.

Recruiting OB/GYNs has been difficult, according to Steger. She named three reasons: few children born in the institution (total 259 in 2021), no Labor program and doctors should be on call all time.

These are “all the reasons candidates chose other options,” she said.

Still a deficit of obstetrician-gynecologist just a problem in Cape May County.

Steger cited the 2019 US Congressional report. of obstetrician-gynecologists who predicted a “deficit of up up to 8,800 obstetrician-gynecologists (obstetrician-gynecologists) by 2020, and the shortage of up to 22,000 by 2050.” Report added that “ACOG appreciated in 2017 what half of There are no OB/GYNs in US counties.”

Staeger said prenatal care for “future mothers continue available in Cape May County through CompleteCare and affiliated OB/GYN practices with Shor Medical Center and AtlantiCare.

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