Regarding the proposed merger, he said, “Change is always difficult.” Kyle Kramer, Day Kimball’s CEO, said the 104-bed hospital has been seeking a financial partner for more than seven years and would soon face “very serious issues” if it had to continue on its own. But they “absolutely deny people access to reproductive health care as well as gender-affirming care (for transgender people).” The hospitals provide “superb care to a lot of people, including low-income communities,” Wiener said. Scott Wiener is among those warily monitoring the proliferation of Catholic health care providers, who operate 52 hospitals in his state. There is concern that doctors governed by such bans - whether a state law or a Catholic directive - may endanger a pregnant woman’s health by withholding treatment as she begins to show ill effects from a pregnancy-related problem. This approach is now being mirrored in several states imposing bans that allow abortions only to save a mother’s life.
“Catholic health clinicians provide all medically indicated treatment even if it poses a threat to the unborn.” Protocols are different for dire emergencies when the mother “suffers from an urgent, life-threatening condition during pregnancy,” Haddad said. Lois Utley, a specialist in tracking hospital mergers, said her organization, Community Catalyst, has identified more than 20 municipalities in blue or purple states where the only acute care hospitals are Catholic.
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“We need to ensure that any new ownership can provide a full range of care - including reproductive health care, family planning, gender-affirming care and end-of-life care,” said Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat. State officials are assessing a bid by Catholic-run Covenant Health to merge with Day Kimball Healthcare, an independent, financially struggling hospital and health care system based in the town of Putnam.
The differing perspectives on these services can clash when a Catholic hospital system seeks to acquire or merge with a non-sectarian hospital, as is happening now in northeastern Connecticut.
These services are widely available at secular hospitals but generally forbidden, along with abortion, at Catholic facilities under the Ethical and Religious Directives set by the U.S. Wade.Ĭoncerns in these blue states pertain to such services as contraception, sterilization and certain procedures for handling pregnancy emergencies. Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning Roe v. These are states such as Oregon, Washington, California, New York and Connecticut, where abortion will remain legal despite the U.S. (AP) - Even as numerous Republican-governed states push for sweeping bans on abortion, there is a coinciding surge of concern in some Democratic-led states that options for reproductive health care are dwindling due to expansion of Catholic hospital networks.
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