(Alice Proujansky/The New York Times) A 3-day-old girl, Allisyn Dohi, who was born at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation hospital in Arizona.
Lessons About Birth at Indian Hospital
MARCH 11, 2010Denise Grady, NYTimes
The Tuba City Regional Health Care hospital, run by the Navajo Nation and financed partly by the Indian Health Service, prides itself on having a higher than average rate of vaginal births among women with a prior Caesarean, and a lower Caesarean rate over all.
The small hospital somehow manages to outperform richer, more prestigious institutions when it comes to keeping Caesarean rates down, which saves money and is better for many mothers and infants.
Read the full story by Denise Grady of The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/health/
