City’s Only Maternity Ward Is Closed
The only maternity ward in Concord, Contra Costa County’s largest city, has closed.
Citing the birth center’s annual losses, including $4 million last year, the John Muir/Mount Diablo Health System board voted in June to close the unit based in Mount Diablo Medical Center. Since then, through a series of legal moves, the hospital survived five scheduled closure dates, until Monday.
Ninety percent of Concord women have been having babies at other hospitals, according to the private nonprofit system, which says it lost $39 million last year.
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