Florida suspends abortion clinic after hospitalizations

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An abortion clinic that serves women from all over the U.S. South had its license suspended this weekend under an emergency order from Florida health officials after two women who had undergone procedures at the clinic were hospitalized this year.

The state Agency for Health Care Administration ordered the suspension of the license for American Family Planning of Pensacola, effective starting Saturday.

In cases cited by the agency, the clinic failed to monitor the patients at all times, didn’t provide medical records when patients were transferred for greater care and didn’t contact the patients within 24 hours after they left the clinic to assess their recovery, said the order which was issued on Friday.

It said the problems were operational deficiencies “endangering the health, safety and welfare” of the clinic’s patients, and the clinic failed to submit timely reports about the incidents to the state agency.



Pedestrians and bikers pass fencing that blocks off the area around the U.S. Supreme Court, Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Washington. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report released Monday. Whatever the outcome, the Politico report represents an extremely rare breach of the court's secretive deliberation process, and on a case of surpassing importance. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)


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[groundloop]

1. Of course headline says "ABORTION CLINIC" and not "Women's Health Center"

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Excellent point. When it comes to Planned Parenthood, most women go there for routine health care

*sigh*

[machoneman]

2. I smell a big rat and its name is DeSatan!

[hay rick]

3. Zealous regulation and enforcement.

Another tool in the anti-choice arsenal.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

4. Read the AP link, folks.

If these three cases are as written, this is some serious neglect of the health and safety of these women.

[FarPoint]

5. Do you wish to identify and discuss ....

the alleged neglect? How are the identified issues so different than any other out-patient post-op event around America...?

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

6. Read the link at AP.

One gal had to have an emergency hysterectomy.

One gal had such low blood pressure, she was admitted.

One gal was told to go to another hospital rather than they one they had admitting privileges at -- in another state. And for the record, Mobile. AL is not a stone's throw from Pensacola, FL.

I'm pro-choice. Always have been. Pro-contraception, too. But these cases look serious IF they are as reported. I'm just concerned that these women were put in a position of medical emergency. And that's not to say that they could be execeptions, but I want more info on these three women before I leap tp judge.

[FarPoint]

7. Well....I read that and find this not anything rare or unusual...

It happens...it is identified in the consent they sign pre-operatively as well...that things can happen...

Sounds like a lot to do about nothing and is blow out of proportion from known risks everywhere for any operative/ OP event.

Some of the sabotage the ant-abortionist place into law target the hospital privileges for abortion clinics...they shame and discourage anyone going in general to any hospital that is the listed as the back up hospital for these clinics...It is required to have a contracted ER hospital to do the procedure...It is now almost impossible to get a local hospital to agree these days...forcing a long distance option...

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

8. Excuse me, but . . .

An emergency hysterectomy is not blowing things out of proportion. We almost lost my sister to such a crisis.

[FarPoint]

9. Well...

did your sister have an abortion then need the emergency hysterectomy? The question relates to the topic...

[SunSeeker]

10. Hospitalizations often happen to women getting outpatient plastic surgery.

And then there's the folks who go to urgent care clinics that send them away with antibiotics only to to have the patient deteriorate and end up in the ER with a major blood infection, like happened to my husband when we were in Orlando. And nobody from the urgent care clinic followed up with him.

Yet Florida is not going after those kind of places.

[Warpy]

11. I have some questions here

First, there were two cases of complications in a year. That's two out of how many patients without complications? This doesn't look like a pattern of either slo-ppy care oir substandard sterile precautions.

Second, the patients had been discharged from the clinic after their procedures. That does not constitute a transfer to another facility. Clinics don't ordinarily provide information over the phone when called, they have no way of knowing who is calling. In most cases, they would call the facility back and supply pertinent information.

Third, it's my understanding that most clinics don't contact patients, patients are given printed information detailing signs and symptoms of complications and instructed to go to an emergency room if they appear. Clinics themselves are not set up to deal with rare cases of bleeding, sepsis, or other complications.

If the two patients presented with the same complication in a short period of time, then definitely something needs to be looked into. Shutting them down was just a little extreme---unless you're some right wing fake Christian who just can't wait for the USSC to overturn Roe and slap all them uppity women down, knock ;em up and chain them up in the kitchen.

[Emile]

13. Any excuse they can find to stop abortion.

Bible thumping bastards are destroying our rights.

[AngryOldDem]

14. How many women does this clinic serve in a year?

Two cases out of how many? What is its history?

By the standard Florida has here, it could probably shut down most of its hospitals for similar events.

This is a political reach.