LAVONIA, Ga. - Sen. Jon Ossoff is calling out federal budget cuts after St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia announced it will close its labor and delivery unit next month, forcing expectant mothers to travel nearly an hour to Athens for care.

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Speaking at First Congregational Church in Atlanta on Sunday, Ossoff linked the closure to reductions in Medicaid funding. "In Lavonia, St. Mary’s Hospital, they've announced they will no longer provide obstetric services to delivering mothers because of decisions made by politicians," Ossoff said. "Evans Memorial Hospital in Southeast Georgia, confronting the fact that they may have to cut their ICU because of decisions made by politicians."

"This is now the second rural Georgia hospital to cut or anticipate cuts to

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