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Article: WOMEN'S SERVICE CUT: ROME'S SCRUTINY ENDS HOSPITAL ARRANGEMENT ON TUBAL LIGATIONS.
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- October 4, 1999
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A Roman Catholic hospital in Little Rock, Ark., is ending its lease arrangement with a group of physicians after church officials in Rome further scrutinized the deal.
The year-old arrangement allowed the Arkansas Women's Health Center, a group of about 30 independent physicians, to lease space inside 308-bed St. Vincent Doctors Hospital for elective sterilizations of women who delivered babies at the hospital.
The arrangement, initially approved by Arkansas' Bishop Andrew McDonald, allowed the hospital to distance itself from the procedures, which the Catholic Church prohibits.
But circumstances changed after McDonald requested, and recently ...