According to a California Watch Analysis, it has been found that for profit hospitals are more likely to perform Cesarean sections than nonprofit hospitals.
Data collected from the years 2005 to 2007 revealed that for profit hospitals are 17% more likely to perform a C section than public or nonprofit hospitals.
It was noted that at the Santa Clara Valley Medical center, low risk pregnancies had a 10% chance of undergoing a C section. However, at the Los Angeles Community Hospital, which is a for profit organization, almost half of low risk pregnancies ended in C sections.
Low risk pregnancies are those that exclude deliveries by older mothers, women with previous c sections and women with certain medical conditions.
This study substantiates the apprehension that many natural childbirth advocates have long expressed – that it is a profit motive that has an impact on the rates of C sections performed. It lends credence to the view that C sections are often unnecessarily performed in order to ‘pad the bottom line’.
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