Village Obstetrics in The New York Times

With the Closing of a Hospital, Women’s Childbirth Options Diminish

By Susan Dominus, The New York Times, April 9, 2010

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With the board of St. Vincent’s Medical Centers having voted Tuesday night to close the hospital, New York is losing essential community services, some downtown history — and an obstetrics department some considered unique in the city. It was exceptionally midwife-friendly, and run by Dr. George Mussalli, whose own practice describes itself as a proponent of “minimally invasive obstetrics.”

A version of this article appears in print on April 10, 2010, Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: With the Closing of a Hospital, Women’s Childbirth Options Diminish. Photo Credit: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times