Durango [ Colorado ] Planned Parenthood clinic to close temporarily, but indefinitely

[Salvador Dolly]

Durango Planned Parenthood clinic to close temporarily, but indefinitely
https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/durango-planned-parenthood-clinic-to-close-temporarily-but-indefinitely/

Planned Parenthood will suspend clinic services in Durango on Sept. 6.

The clinic has not had a nurse practitioner on staff for over eight months, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains CEO Adrienne Mansanares said, and stopgap measures are no longer viable.

The indefinite closure will leave Durango without a brick-and-mortar abortion provider.

Since late 2023, staff members on a team from across a four-state region, which includes Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado, have circulated through the Durango clinic to ensure that the required licensed personnel were on-site.

“We’ve increased our recruitment efforts,” Mansanares said. “But even if we do bring someone on, sometimes it’s three to six months of training before they can start seeing patients.”

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Please note. Not exactly red state Bible belt territory. Yet this still happened.

[jimfields33]

1. Pay them more and you'll get someone.

It seems the obvious solution.

[hlthe2b]

2. I suspect concerns over safety (even though I'd bet they do have at least some security) and for that of their

family--was at play every much as the pay. -- Even in PRO-CHOICE/ABORTION Sanctuary Colorado.

[Reader Rabbit]

3. Isn't Durango an artist colony kinda place these days?

As such, it would be pretty liberal politically. Maybe the cost of living is really high, and that's what's discouraging applicants?