Our community cannot afford to lose the birth center at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital.
Doctors, nurses, our local fire chiefs, U.S. senators and representative, City Council president and current and former patients all agree: Linn County residents need essential services like labor and delivery and pre-and post-birth care in a central location that’s accessible.
It isn’t a luxury. This is life-or-death for moms and newborns and our community.
At the Girod Birth Center at Samaritan Lebanon, we do so much more than deliver babies.
We are a labor, delivery, postpartum, neonatal care, triage, and women’s health post-operative recovery unit.
We provide special community services including childbirth classes, lactation support, testing for moms and babies with significant health risks, care up to a month after delivery and ambulance support for hospital transfers.
Put simply: We are a lifeline for local women, mothers, and babies. Our doors are open for them before, during and after birth and our care keeps them out of the emergency room—which means faster treatment for everyone else in our community.
Thousands of people have already called on Samaritan executives to do the right thing and save essential local services like our birth center and emergency surgery team.
It’s time for Samaritan executives and the board of directors to listen to the providers at the bedside, the patients we care for, our fire chiefs and elected officials and save our birth center. You can help send a message to Samaritan executives at www.SaveOurBirthCenters.com.
Amanda Vinson, RN, is an Oregon Nurses Association member and a nurse at the Girod Birth Center at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital.