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I
am a pediatrician at St. Luke's Hospital.
I want to inform you all about a recently announced plan to cut medical services
to the women and children of our city. The administration at CPMC, in an attempt
to reduce costs at St. Luke's, plans to close the pediatric inpatient service
and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Nov. 15th. The result of this closure, which
reduces the number of qualified caregivers needed to resuscitate newborns, will
have disastrous effects on the women and children who have come to depend on the
quality medical care they receive at our hospital. Currently 1300 babies are
born annually at St. Luke's. The majority come from low income, minority
families. The only other hospital south of Market is SF General Hospital which
is already overburdened.
If you or any of your contacts are interested is supporting our attempts to
maintain quality services at St. Lukes' please join us at a public hearing
Thursday, October 25th, 1:00pm room 263 of City Hall.
St. Luke's physicians and nurses desperately need your help getting the word out
about this impending crisis. Please feel free to forward this message or contact
me for further information.
Thanks,
Karen Makely, MD
Department of Pediatrics
St. Luke's Hospital
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