{"id":27179,"date":"2019-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/a-private-adelaide-hospital-is-closing-its-obstetrics-ward\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T00:00:00","slug":"a-private-adelaide-hospital-is-closing-its-obstetrics-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/a-private-adelaide-hospital-is-closing-its-obstetrics-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"A Private Adelaide Hospital Is CLOSING Its Obstetrics Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11:05am &#8212; CONFIRMED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"649\" width=\"727\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2019-03-15_at_10.57.05_am.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EARLIER&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Flinders Private Hospital is shutting down its obstetrics unit, reports FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy.<\/h3>\n<p>Penbo said during Friday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is a massive, massive story that is going to effect so many families in South Australia, particularly families and mums to be in the southern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have learnt in the past half hour that on the 31<sup>st<\/sup> of July Flinders Private Hospital is apparently going to be shutting down its obstetrics ward. The reason is costs\u2026 apparently the privately owned hospital has made a commercial decision that it is no longer financially viable to offer obstetrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHundreds and hundreds possibly thousands of babies are born there every year. Our understanding is that obstetricians started calling Adelaide mums yesterday &#8212; women who are two, three, four, five months pregnant saying you\u2019ve got to find a new hospital. That\u2019s incredibly stressful for those women. And what pressures are going to pop up elsewhere in the health system?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuge story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11:05am &#8212; CONFIRMED: EARLIER&#8230; Flinders Private Hospital is shutting down its obstetrics unit, reports FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy. Penbo said during Friday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment: \u201cThis is a massive, massive story that is going to effect so many families in South Australia, particularly families and mums to be in the southern suburbs. \u201cWe have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-27179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Private Adelaide Hospital Is CLOSING Its Obstetrics Ward - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/a-private-adelaide-hospital-is-closing-its-obstetrics-ward\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Private Adelaide Hospital Is CLOSING Its Obstetrics Ward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"11:05am &#8212; CONFIRMED: EARLIER&#8230; Flinders Private Hospital is shutting down its obstetrics unit, reports FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy. 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