Oceanside nurses fighting as TriCity Medical Center looks to close women and newborn services

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Registered nurses at Tri-Metropolis Medical Heart gathered outdoors the Oceanside hospital on Friday to demand that girls and new child providers stay open, because the Board of Administrators reconsiders the lately underutilized division. This comes because the division has seen a decline in referrals of pregnant sufferers to Tri-Metropolis, prompting the board to re-evaluate the division’s monetary viability. On the rally and board assembly Friday, nurses who work within the division — which is made up of the neonatal intensive care, labor and supply and postpartum models — voiced their issues about shuttering these essential providers to…