The stork finds a new place to land
The new UI Maternity Center at UI Hospitals and Clinics
offers parents-to-be all the comforts of home while waiting
for the newest family member to arrive. The updated pre- and
post-partum rooms feature home-like amenities like CDs and
DVD players, plus a few special features including whirlpool
baths and room service.
"All the latest technologies will be unobtrusively
hidden, so it's private and relaxed," says Jennifer Niebyl,
M.D., head of the UI Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
The UI Maternity Center includes five labor and delivery
rooms, three high risk rooms, 20 post/antepartum rooms, and
two operating room suites.
Also new are the relocated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit,
featuring 55 private rooms, and the Pediatric Intensive Care
Unit, offering 16 private rooms. As part of University of Iowa Children's Hospital, located at UI Hospitals and Clinics, these
units are staffed by highly-trained specialists and feature
the most advanced technologies available for premature
babies, very sick newborns, and children through
adolescents.
"The outcome rate of our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
ranks among the top five percent worldwide," says Angie
Shalla, R.N., nurse manager on the unit."We're pretty proud
of that."
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