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This
project includes a 98,800 sf addition and
renovation which provides the first phase of a seven-year plan
to convert an existing community hospital into a specialty
Women’s and Children’s Hospital. This state-of-the-art facility
is devoted solely to the special needs of women and children,
especially during the later stages of pregnancy and following
delivery.
The first floor of the Women’s OB services
includes twenty-four post partum rooms for mother and baby,
twelve labor/delivery/recovery rooms (LDRs), and four antepartum
(pre-term) rooms. There are also six private triage rooms, an
operating suite that includes two c-section operating rooms, two
pre-operation rooms, and two post-operation rooms.
The new neonatal intensive care unit
(NICU) is like no other in this region. Twenty-nine private
rooms, complete with sleeping quarters for the parents, provide
a more nurturing, healing environment for the newborns needing
special care and attention after birth.
The private
NICU rooms are designed to minimize light and sound stimuli that
can actually be harmful to premature infants. Special
sound-deadening materials were used for both floors and
ceilings. To truly reduce noise, these patient rooms do not
have televisions or bathrooms.
Another
important feature of each room is the ample space for the
family, enabling them to care for, bond with and even sleep near
their child. This offers family members more opportunities to
participate in the care of their baby and stay with them at all
times, even during the night. There are even several rooms
designed to accommodate twins or triplets and their family.
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