In an effort to “streamline” its three-county operations, Deliberate Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest will shut its Mission Bay well being middle in San Diego in early 2025, the group introduced this week.
In a press release, Darrah DiGiorgio Johnson, the group’s chief government officer, mentioned that she believes different close by well being facilities will have the ability to deal with appointments that may in any other case have gone to the Mission Bay Mimi Brien Well being Middle on Mission Bay Drive.
“We’re assured that our sufferers will have the ability to adequately entry their care at our 10 surrounding well being facilities positioned all through San Diego County,” DiGiorgio Johnson mentioned.
The closest clinic of these clinics is the newly reworked Joan & Irwin Jacobs Middle in Kearny Mesa adopted by the Michelle Wagner Middle on First Avenue in downtown San Diego and the Corton/Eibl Household Middle in Mira Mesa.
Workers at present working in Mission Bay might be relocated to different well being facilities within the area.
“We’re grateful for our Mission Bay workforce and their service and dedication to our sufferers and the Mission Bay neighborhood over the previous twenty years,” DiGiorgio Johnson mentioned. “This step helps us extra carefully match capability and demand throughout our well being facilities and additional our sustainability efforts throughout our affiliate(s).”
Well being clinics throughout the nation have just lately confronted elevated protest actions from anti-abortion activists, prompting the San Diego Metropolis Council to enact “buffer” restrictions on such demonstrations within the spring. Deliberate Parenthood mentioned such protests performed no function within the Mission Bay closure.