by David Cruz
Plans to re-open the maternity ward at North Central Bronx Hospital could come as early as September, hospital officials announced.
At a public meeting last week, the Health and Hospital Corporation, health advocates, hospital officials and community advocates unveiled plans for reopening NCBH’s maternity ward by fall of 2014. The opening would come just over a year after hospital administration officials were forced to shut down the ward following a medical staff shortage.
Expectant mothers in the neighborhood were forced to commute elsewhere as plans to re-0pen the ward went underway.
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