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Originally Posted by old coot
I think that Wolfeboro's lack of a maternity facility anywhere near its boundaries, will help make the town an unpopular choice of residence among young families of child bearing age.
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Hmmm.... I don't know about that. We move to Alton knowing that the closest hospital was Huggins but chose to have our baby at Frisbie Memorial in Rochester (only to get shipped to Dartmouth in Lebanon due to our baby being a preemie)... We had the second boy at LRGH. (This was in 2001 and 2005) When I talk with other moms, they've all gone many different places to have their babies - Portsmouth, Dover, Concord. Sometimes it seems like a status thing - who has the best facility will get the business.
Franklin Regional Hospital became a critical access hospital in 2004. They closed their maternity unit in 2005. They average between 105-115 births per year with no real decline...