02.16.12 University Medical Center closed its labor and delivery department Wednesday and from now on the medical center's prenatal patients will deliver at Women's & Children's Hospital, according to a public notice issued by the LSU Health System.
Women's & Children's also will receive the medical center's newborns from its nursery and its neonatal intensive care unit Friday; few transfers are expected, according to information from University Medical Center.
Also Friday, pediatric inpatients will be transferred to Lafayette General Medical Center, according to the notice.