MercyOne Clinton Medical Center Ending Labor and Delivery Services After Mariannette Miller-Meeks Gutted Rural Health Care

This means that Iowa women in and around Clinton will be forced to drive an hour or longer to deliver a baby. Miller-Meeks’ vote to gut Medicaid did this. 

DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Mariannette Miller-Meeks voted to gut rural health care funding, and Iowans continue to pay the price: this time, it’s the women in and around Clinton who will be forced to drive an hour or more to access essential care and deliver their babies.”

Read more: 

WQAD: MercyOne Clinton Medical Center ending labor and delivery services

• MercyOne’s Clinton Medical Center is phasing out labor and delivery services.
• The center’s last day of providing labor and delivery will take place on Tuesday, May 26. Services will be moved to birth centers in Dubuque, Davenport and Silvis. Prenatal and women’s health services will still be available at the Clinton facility, however.
• Company officials cited rising health care costs, staffing shortages, issues with government funding and policy changes to Medicaid and Medicare as reasons for the changes.

Reminder of the other Iowa clinic closures following Miller-Meeks’ vote to gut Medicaid:

• Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center in West Burlington ended its birthing and delivery services.
• MercyOne Traer Family Medicine closed down in December.
• MercyOne Ottumwa closed its doors, forcing Iowans who receive care to “drive up to an hour” to receive medical care.
• Pella Regional Medical Clinic in Ottumwa reduced its services and “no longer offers the full scope of family practice services.”
• MercyOne laid off Iowans in Des Moines and Mason City, “cit[ing] federal cuts.”

###