This week’s video features commentary on a developing story regarding the discontinuation of delivery privileges at West Suburban hospital for family medicine doctors and midwives.
For more on this story, visit WBEZ. You can find additional coverage in the Austin Weekly News, and read an open letter from a family medicine doctor in the Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest.
To learn more about and help a community effort to reverse the trend of declining maternity care in Chicago’s underserved communities, visit the Southside Life House website.
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