At five months pregnant, Kemmerer mom Alyssa Vasey had her birth all planned out. When the time came, she was going to make the nearly one-hour drive to Evanston, where her trusted OB-GYN practices, and give birth in the hospital’s labor and delivery ward.
But then on Tuesday, a friend tagged her in a Facebook post about the Evanston hospital’s birthing center closing. She initially balked.
“I thought it was just gossip,” she said…