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Ohio Nurses Association
2 days ago
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OhioHealth owes this community answers. We’re waiting. #OnTheFirstNightAs an elected representative serving the PEOPLE of Delaware, I want to post a follow up about OhioHealth’s closure of Grady Memorial’s Labor and Delivery Unit. I want our citizens to have a full and clear picture of the healthcare services available to them in the City of Delaware.

OhioHealth publicly stated “Prenatal, postnatal and gynecologic care will continue locally in Delaware County, and OhioHealth is expanding women’s health services.” Prior to the closure, Lactation Services were withdrawn from Grady Memorial Hospital. That is a reduction in available postnatal care. There IS still an OhioHealth OB/Gyn office in Delaware providing prenatal and postpartum appointments with delivery privileges at Dublin.

OhioHealth publicly stated “Grady Memorial’s emergency department teams are fully equipped, trained, and prepared to safely support and deliver babies for any patient who arrives in labor or requires an emergency delivery.” The ED took the maternal hemorrhage cart out of the L&D on Friday night, but to my knowledge there has been no training provided to the ED staff on the management of maternal hemorrhages. Last week, OhioHealth administration informed the ED staff that not only would they NOT be providing Neonatal Resuscitation Protocol training to the ED nurses, but they would no longer be requiring the ED doctors to be trained in NRP either. (Edited to include new information) There will be just 2 Respiratory Therapists at Grady for each shift certified in NRP. One assigned to the ED. They are not pediatric specialists and do not typically independently run a resuscitation on an infant without the direction of OB and L&D Nurses. They are being put in a very compromising professional position. In Ohio, ED doctors may only perform perimortem c-sections, in plain English, only on women who are deceased or in cardiac arrest, to save the baby. The primary ambulance service OhioHealth is contracted with informed OhioHealth administration weeks ago that they do not transfer neonates.

On Friday night, as the Labor and Delivery unit closed its doors, the ED had their first Obstetrical Emergency present. ED staff called the remaining OB and Nurses from L&D to assist (although with the unit closing that staff was limited in the care they could offer), because the entire plan for emergency births was “transport the patient within 30minutes.” However, when the transport coordinator called for transport to Dublin, they were given a transport time 12 hours away. When the ED staff called OhioHealth Administration for direction (because they had not been adequately prepared and protocols were not in place) they were instructed to call 911. The OhioHealth Grady ED plan for emergency births is to call 911 and pass the problem off to taxpayer funded EMS.

The nurses who have lost their jobs at OhioHealth as a result of the closure were to receive their Severance Packages today. They did not. I believe this is retaliation against the nurses who publicly spoke out about the closure.

Cherie Smith, PhD, MBA, RN, OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital and OhioHealth Dublin Methodist President looked me in the eye and told me that Anesthesia services would remain available at Grady for “all services at all times.” Today, the Anesthesia staff was informed of a 50k annual pay cut and the Pediatricians were informed of a 40% annual pay cut since “they will no longer be on call” for Grady. Seeing as there are critical nationwide shortages of both Anesthesiologists and Pediatricians, how long do you think they will continue to serve Grady in any capacity? OhioHealth Administration already said it is simply too difficult to recruit for a hospital as small as Grady (yet the same administration refuses to invest in Grady, despite it being profitable - to the tune of $20million annually last year and this year).

City Council has no authority over how Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations operate. I did everything within my limited legal capacity to prevent the closure.

It is time for the citizens of Delaware to use their political and consumer voices to demand adequate healthcare services in the City of Delaware. If it is important to you to have local access to healthcare, you need to make sure that OhioHealth, Any other health system you utilize, your City Council members, your County Commissioners, your State Representative and Senator, and your Governor know that you will not accept anything less than robust access to adequate healthcare appropriate for a City and County of our size and economic strength. ... See MoreSee Less

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Ohio Nurses Foundation
2 months ago
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We are delighted to make our final 2026 scholarship announcement!

The RN Pursuing Advanced Degree in Nursing scholarship is awarded to a student pursuing a Master's or Doctoral degree in nursing.

The recipient of the 2026 RN Pursuing Advanced Degree in Nursing scholarship is Brianna Apple! Congratulations, Brianna!!! 🥳 ... See MoreSee Less

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