MADISON, Wis. -- Planned Parenthood and other groups and families upset about the UW Hospital closing its infertility clinic rallied their forces at a meeting Wednesday night.

They want to find a way to keep high-end infertility services in Madison, but that might not be easy, WISC-TV reported. The women’s endocrine clinic at UW Hospital will close on June 30.

The hospital sent letters to 3,000 patients who were seen at the clinic in the last three years. The patients were told the 23-year-old clinic is no longer a good fit for the hospital, partly because it doesn’t have a birthing facility.

Justin and Justyna Neilsen, who received one of the letters, told News 3 they never would have had 5-week-old Kyla had it not been for the clinic’s lab and doctors.

Couples like the Nielsens are shocked and outraged, and are now stuck looking for alternatives. The Nielsens said they might even move.

“It's a sad day in Madison; I don't know that I want to live in Madison,” said Justyna. “I feel that strongly about it that I might move, if that's what it takes, especially because we know we don't want to stop at having one child. We'd like to have at least two children.”

Two of the three doctors at the hospital’s infertility clinic said it has been a madhouse ever since word got out the clinic was shutting down, WISC-TV reported. . Now, they said, they are scrambling to find alternative care for patients as well as a new home.

Dr. Elizabeth Pritts, a reproductive infertility specialist at the women’s endocrine clinic, said she and her husband were caught off-guard at the short notice of the closing.

“This is a very sub-specialized clinic,” said Pitts. “We take on very complicated special issues for women -- endocrine and gynecologic and infertility issues -- and basically there's going to be nobody in town to perform these services. The community is really going to be at a loss.”