
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas birthing center licensed to deliver babies for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies has been temporarily shut down and declared a public health risk by the state health department.
The Birth and Women’s Center in Topeka was placed under emergency suspension Feb. 4 after an investigation determined the center had violated several stipulations of its licensing by failing to keep proper records or complying with quality assurance requirements.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says it received complaints of an unusually high incidence of medical problems in women and their children who had been delivered there.
A woman who answered the phone at the center referred questions to Dr. Josie Norris, the practitioner who oversees the birth center.
Norris didn’t immediately return a phone call.