Posted on 05/28/2013 2:51:24 PM PDT by Welchie25
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suspended the licenses of four surgical abortion clinics, including three whose licenses were previously suspended but briefly reinstated.
The licenses of the four locations of Associates in OB/GYN Care LLC, in Baltimore, Cheverly, Frederick and Silver Spring were suspended May 9 after the DHMH’s Office of Health Care Quality (OHCQ) “identified serious deficiencies in the medical oversight of patient care.”
Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein, Maryland’s health secretary, announced the suspensions May 24 in a letter to Maryland Sen. Thomas McLain Middleton (D-Charles County), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Del. Peter A. Hammen (D-Baltimore City), chairman of the House of Delegates’ Health and Government Operations.
The letter updated the General Assembly members on the progress of the DHMH’s efforts to enforce new surgical abortion facility regulations, adopted last summer. The Maryland Catholic Conference was among the advocates for new regulations.
In March, the DHMH suspended the licenses of the Associates in OB/GYN Care facilities in Baltimore, Cheverly and Silver Spring, but reinstated them in April after receiving “acceptable plans of correction addressing the issues” from management.
After the license reinstatements, the OHCQ investigated a complaint about Associates in OB/GYN Care patient care and “concluded that the deficiencies posed a serious and immediate danger to patients,” according to Sharfstein, although “there were no serious adverse events associated with these deficiencies.” The deficiencies led the OHCQ to revoke all four locations’ licenses.
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I bet if you sent in someone undercover, a minor saying she was impregnated by an adult, these clinics would violate every law about reporting statutory rape, notifying parents and everything else.
They believe they are above the law.
The ridiculous comments by the pro-murder crowd use incidences like this claiming “why” they needed safe and legal abortion. I’ll never understand how they can say that with a straight face when they currently HAVE safe and legal abortion yet the abortioners don’t care who they hurt of how filthy their operation is.
El Sick-O Abortion-O Clinic-O’s.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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