"We're working very closely with our physicians, nurses and community (to make it happen),"
"We're looking forward to doing that."
"The majority of women giving birth in the county actually come from within a 4-mile radius of Regional Medical Center. They're concentrated in the central and eastern part of the county,"
"If you're looking to help provide this service, this is the ideal location."
Regional Medical Center will restore labor and delivery care around October 20 after joining Santa Clara County's public hospital system six months earlier. The obstetrics department was eliminated in 2020 by the former owner, prompting major protests. Santa Clara County purchased Regional for $150 million last year to stop profit-driven service cuts and to prevent Eastside neighborhoods from becoming a health care desert. The purchase made Regional the fourth hospital in the county system and one of the state's largest. About 80% of Medi-Cal patients giving birth in the county live near Regional, with most originating within a four-mile radius. The hospital previously had its trauma center restored to Level 2.
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