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Brown Health grapples with balancing community and its own financial needs

NEWPORT HOSPITAL'S birthing center is one of the services that Brown University Health has said it is considering discontinuing in the face of the health system's financial woes. / COURTESY NEWPORT HOSPITAL
NEWPORT HOSPITAL'S birthing center is one of the services that Brown University Health has said it is considering discontinuing in the face of the health system's financial woes. / COURTESY NEWPORT HOSPITAL

Brown University Health is in a tough spot. The nonprofit health system is considering cutting several crucial services and programs in order to reach its goal of a 3% operating margin. This benchmark is crucial to sustaining Brown Health’s mission of “caring for our patients, advancing research and training future generations” as Brown Health braces

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