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C-section rate still high Efforts to reduce birth procedure’s use make some progress
Centegra delays start in Huntley Hospital groundbreaking to wait for lawsuit decision By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com
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Rebecca Everly holds her day-old son Tyler for a portrait as she plays with her daughter, Penelope, 1, on Tuesday while at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington. Everly gave birth to both her children at Good Shepherd and both children were delivered by cesarean section. By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
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ARRINGTON – Rebecca Everly didn’t really know what to expect after her first cesarean section. She had planned on a vaginal delivery with her daughter, Penelope, but the baby was sideways and an emergency C-section was performed.
“It’s a long recovery,” Everly said. “I was hoping six to eight weeks to recover. Then I was at six weeks, going, ‘Come on. I can do it. I’m young. I’m athletic. I can recover faster.’ Twelve weeks later, I’m like, ‘Wow, I’m still not 100 percent.’ ” That’s why she would have preferred to go with a vaginal birth with her next child, a son.
“I think it’s best for the baby, and I think it’s an easier recovery as a mom,” Everly said. But with the due date just 15 months after the birth of Penelope, her doctor recommended another C-section. Many moms-to-be don’t know about the risks involved with cesarean sections, said Dr. David Crandall, an obste-
trician at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington. “[When medically appropriate], I encourage them to do a vaginal delivery because then we don’t have go through a surgical procedure,” he said. “The recovery is easier, you get to go home sooner, and there are inherent risks to any surgery.”
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Total births
VBACs
C-sections
Total births include C-sections, VBACs and vaginal births for women with no history of C-sections.
VBAC stands for vaginal birth after cesarean section (the woman had a C-section with an earlier child but a vaginal birth for subsequent children).
Doctors and hospitals nationwide have tried to reduce the number of C-sections through improved perinatal care and educating patients.
BY THE NUMBERS State average Advocate Sherman Hospital Centegra Hospital – McHenry Centegra Hospital – Woodstock Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Total births 133,915 2,552 747 847 1,278
Total VBACs 2,697 80 17 11 33
Complicated 329 14 1 1 2
Uncomplicated 2,368 66 16 10 31
Total C-sections 38,106 646 157 265 373
First-time 18,585 310 65 111 160
Subsequent 19,521 336 92 154 213
PERCENTAGES State average Advocate Sherman Hospital Centegra Hospital – McHenry Centegra Hospital – Woodstock Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Total births 133,915 2,552 747 847 1,278
Total VBACs 2.01% 3.13% 2.28% 1.30% 2.58%
Complicated 12.20% 17.50% 5.88% 9.09% 6.06%
Uncomplicated 87.80% 82.50% 94.12% 90.91% 93.94%
Total C-sections 28.46% 25.31% 21.02% 31.29% 29.19%
First-time 48.77% 47.99% 41.40% 41.89% 42.90%
Subsequent 51.23% 52.01% 58.60% 58.11% 57.10%
Numbers are from October 2011 through September 2012. Source: Illinois Department of Public Health
HUNTLEY – The ongoing lawsuit over Centegra Health System’s $233 million Huntley hospital has delayed the much-anticipated October groundbreaking until this winter, giving Centegra’s competitors a short-term victory in their battle to halt the project. But the victory might not last long. Centegra will head back to Will County Circuit Court on Nov. 12 to hear Judge Bobbi Petrungaro’s final decision on the lawsuit initiated by competitors Mercy Health System, Advocate Health Care and Sherman Health. Centegra Chief Executive Mike Eesley and General Counsel Aaron Shepley both expressed confidence that the Huntley hospital project would withstand the legal challenge. With a final court date now known, Centegra pushed back its Oct. 23 groundbreaking to late December or early January as a precaution – months after the lawsuit would be put to rest, Eesley said.
Mike Eesley Centegra Chief Executive
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Libya demands U.S. explain raid The ASSOCIATED PRESS A suspected Libyan al-Qaida figure nabbed by U.S. special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran, where he had been detained for years, his family said Sunday. The Libyan government bristled at the raid, asking Washington to explain the “kidnapping.” The swift Delta Force operation in the streets of the Libyan capital that seized the militant known as Abu Anas al-Libi was one of two
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“We didn’t want to put the groundbreaking in front of anybody when we were unable to literally break ground.”
Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, also known by his alias Abu Anas al-Libi, was captured by U.S. special forces in Tripoli. He is on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list with a $5 million bounty.
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