Delta Health Standards Violations in Louisiana

Dear Friends in Christ,

Please Contact DHH about Delta Violations: 225-342-0132 and 866-280-7737. While we are all busy with contacting Representatives and Senators about the serious problems with the national health care reform issue, this deserves our equal attention. We expect to hear something from DHH very soon about this - they will respond sooner if they hear from enough people. Thanks and Godspeed!

Delta Women’s Clinic has a well documented history of noncompliance with both federal and state laws dating back to 1986. Numerous violations have been reported to the DHH, DEA, federal, state and local authorities by Delta employees and private citizens. Due to the injury of several women, an investigation by WAFB revealed extensive violations of the sanitary code and medical malpractice which led Governor Foster to declare an emergency executive order for DHH to go in and inspect the clinic. This led to the suspension of Delta physicians James Whitmore and Eileen White O’Neill and the drafting of several new laws by the Louisiana Legislature. The most significant of these laws brought abortion clinics under the same guidelines as ambulatory surgical units, medical clinics and doctor’s offices.

Since the passage of these laws, the violations committed by Delta physicians and workers at the Delta Clinic have led to continued injury and medical malpractice to the women of Louisiana going there. A concerned citizen recently reported 7 criminal violations being committed by the Delta Clinic to the DHH, which led DHH to do an internal investigation at Delta. DHH found the same violations in their investigation yet have not to date closed the Delta Clinic or impose punitive fines for these violations. Twenty-four years of endangering the public health is enough! Call Governor Jindal and the DHH and demand that Leroy T. Brinkley and the Delta Clinic never to be allowed in the State of Louisiana again and that those affiliated with this clinic will be brought to justice for their crimes.