BATON ROUGE – The state department of Health and Hospitals said Tuesday that it had revoked the license of a Gentilly women’s clinic for failure to comply with the state’s abortion facility license standards.
DHH Secretary Alan Levine said the license revocation came after the facility failed to comply with several regulations. He said the clinic was operating without a nurse on staff, without a site-specific Louisiana controlled dangerous substance license and without a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration controlled substance registration.
“Louisiana law is very clear on the requirements to maintain a safe medical environment for women seeking abortion services,” said Levine. “We have a duty to ensure women have safe choices for the services they are legally entitled to… This clinic has been in clear violation of our state’s health standards and we cannot allow Louisiana citizens to get inadequate or unsafe care.”
