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Catholic Healthcare in Blacktown: Providing Quality Care to the Community

Catholic Healthcare is a network of hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare providers dedicated to providing quality care to the community. We are committed to providing compassionate, personalized care to our patients, regardless of their faith or background. Our hospitals and clinics offer a wide range of services, including inpatient and outpatient care, surgery, diagnostics, and rehabilitation. We also have a strong focus on preventive care, and we offer a variety of programs and services to help our patients stay healthy. We are proud to be a part of the Blacktown community, and we are committed to providing quality healthcare to everyone who needs it.

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Bee highlights the way Catholic hospitals don’t give proper care to their pregnant patients who are having medical problems. Additionally, it can be hard to avoid or even recognize a hospital that is following Catholic codes. You may not have a choice when stuck in a bad situation.

The Catholic ethics guide doesn’t even allow for the removal of an ectopic (non-viable) pregnancy. 

“There are some situations where the mother may in fact die, along with her child.” -Father John Ehrich, medical ethics director, Diocese of Phoenix.

“The fact that they can’t receive… sterilizations at a Catholic healthcare facility is not a form of suffering… we’re protecting them from evil things that can happen to them.” - unnamed priest

Bee: “A miscarriage is already the worst day in a woman’s life. And in a Catholic hospital, it could also be her last.”

Extended Interviews

Dr. Rupa Natarajan describes how the directives restricted her ability to care for her patients at the Catholic hospital where she worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obC0IjaKzgE

Mindy Swank was forced by a Catholic hospital to continue an unviable pregnancy after her water broke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9finqZJJNA8

Jennafer Norris, like many women, was denied a tubal ligation by a Catholic hospital during emergency c-section, even though her life would be at risk if she were to get pregnant again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFWRfhDr000

Melanie Jones spent two weeks bleeding and in unnecessary pain after a physician at a Catholic facility refused to remove her dislodged IUD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6iyAMFDjy4

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