Western MassachusettsUpdated: Nov. 06, 2025, 1:02 p.m.|Published: Nov. 06, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Mercy Medical Center’s Family Life Center is planning to temporarily stop maternity and newborn services in December.
The services will officially stop on Dec. 8.
Trinity Health, the organization overseeing the Springfield-based Family Life Center, said the services are stopping due to significant provider and staffing constraints, including nurses, that have “persisted over several months despite concerted efforts to recruit and retain FLC clinical colleagues.”
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