State health department files to revoke South Bend abortion clinic license

The inspection, conducted Oct. 29, cited 27 regulations that the clinic did not meet, including regulations on proof of staff certification, clinic procedures and disposal of expired medication. The complaint filed in January states that in December the clinic administrators were contacted via mail and given their first notice of noncompliance — and asked to submit a plan of correction. By Jan. 5, they had not submitted an acceptable plan, and were sent a second notice of noncompliance.

At the time the complaint was filed, the ISDH had still not received such a plan. According to Indiana State Department of Health spokesman Ken Severson, the department has received a plan, but not one that could be accepted. 

The October inspection report details clinic shortcomings, such as proof that 15 out of 30 patient files inspected were served by qualified staff during recovery after an abortion. The inspection also found that 15 out of 30 patient files showed patients were not monitored by qualified personnel other than the doctor while under conscious sedation during an abortion procedure.