Allegheny General to End Baby Deliveries, Transfer Services to West Penn

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Baby deliveries at Allegheny General Hospital will stop within the next year as part of an overhaul that will move inpatient obstetrics and psychiatric services to other hospitals within West Penn Allegheny Health System, officials announced Friday.

Inpatient obstetrics services will relocate from AGH in the North Side to West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield. That includes labor and delivery, postpartum, newborn nursery and intensive care nursery services, officials said. The inpatient psychiatric services will relocate to Alle-Kiski Medical Center in Natrona Heights and West Penn's Forbes Regional Campus in Monroeville.

The moves at the region's second-largest …