Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol will stop delivering babies as early as Dec. 31, the hospital said.
The move follows years of weak financial performance in the unit and the recent departure of Lower Bucks' busiest obstetrical practice, the Center for Woman's Health in Langhorne, for Capital Health's new hospital in Hopewell Township, Mercer County.
"It is with great regret that we have to end such a wonderful and long-standing service," said Peter Adamo, regional chief executive for Prime Health Care Services Inc., a for-profit company based in California that owns Lower Bucks and Roxborough Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia.
