Springfield, Ore.-based McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center is to close a maternity health practice less than four years after launching the in-house program, according to the Lund Report.
The for-profit McKenzie-Willamette hospital says the 11-employee midwifery program is "unsustainable," according to the report.
The unit is now slated to close July 7, according to a KLCC report. McKenzie Midwives and Lactation Services opened in 2019 after Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth's Nurse Midwifery Birth Center closed, the report said.