{"id":1219,"date":"2018-08-16T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designerofreality.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2018-08-16T14:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T14:21:57","slug":"making-it-as-nice-as-possible-for-babies-and-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/2018\/08\/16\/making-it-as-nice-as-possible-for-babies-and-moms\/","title":{"rendered":"Making it as nice as possible for babies and mom\u2019s\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It will still likely be a couple of weeks until the first baby will be born in \u201cMaternity Place\u201d at Broward Health\u2019s Coral Springs Hospital.\u00a0 \u00a0Our City Media got an early peak into the \u201cnext level of healthcare\u201d at the hospital\u2019s new state-of-the-art $65 million patient tower expansion.\u00a0 The focus of the expansion on the first and second floors is on providing the very best neonatal and maternity care available.\u00a0 The third floor expands Broward Health\u2019s surgical capabilities with a big investment in robotic equipment that can dramatically streamline procedures and result in more speedy recovery, decreases in pain and loss of blood with less scaring and chance of infection.\u00a0 A fourth floor has yet to be built out and it will be developed based on the needs of the growing local community.<\/p>\n

The big take away from the tour of the new maternity floors today was the tremendous attention given to creating a comfortable and pleasant experience for patients and those involved in their care and recovery.\u00a0 The first floor offers 12 private and spacious birthing suites that provide openness and natural light with floor to ceiling windows.\u00a0 They each have customizable interior lighting and temperature controls with extra space for family members.\u00a0 Dad\u2019s even get a comfortable recliner to sleep in if they want to stay the night.\u00a0 The facility is also set up to allow water births.\u00a0 Private triage and recovery rooms are available along with three Cesarean section operating suites.\u00a0 \u00a0The second floor provides 28 private and spa-like mother and baby post-partum rooms.\u00a0 Ten private Salah Foundation Children\u2019s Hospital Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit rooms are just steps away from mom\u2019s suite making this probably the best place in the world for those babies born weeks or even months too early.<\/p>\n

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With a clear focus on caring for early births \u2013 both baby and mother \u2013 we have Arlene Boykin, MD.\u00a0 She is a Neonatologist and Chair of the \u201cKids 2 Campaign\u201d which has been the driving force helping to raise money for this expansion.\u00a0 This has been a development project of the Salah Foundation Children\u2019s Hospital at Broward Health Coral Springs that has been providing the very best in area pediatric care (for those newborns as they get a little older).\u00a0 Dr. Boykin has a clear passion for providing a safe, welcoming environment for newborns to start their lives while making the new mother\u2019s as comfortable as possible.\u00a0 The rooms offer patient and family privacy, less noise and allow mother\u2019s to be in the same room with their baby even if the newborn needs to be in a temperature controlled NICU unit while it matures.<\/p>\n

Dr. Boykin stressed in the tour today the importance the hospital places on promoting breast feeding for the early and long term health of the baby.\u00a0 While each room provides equipment for storing and warming breast milk, the focus is on encouraging breast feeding and helping mothers become comfortable with the process.\u00a0 Dr. Boykin stated, \u201cThe more skin to skin time and breastfeeding a small or sick baby participates in, the healthier the outcome for the baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Healthy outcomes for baby and mother are what all the time, money and planning have been about.\u00a0 Coral Springs and the surrounding area should be very appreciative of all the talented and caring people who have made this new facility a reality.\u00a0 If you are interested in learning more about how YOU can help make a difference in the lives of these tiniest of patients, contact Megan Massacci at 954-712-6342 or mmassacci@browardhealth.org.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It will still likely be a couple of weeks until the first baby will be born in \u201cMaternity Place\u201d at Broward Health\u2019s Coral Springs Hospital.\u00a0 \u00a0Our City Media got an early peak into the \u201cnext level of healthcare\u201d at the hospital\u2019s new state-of-the-art $65 million patient tower expansion.\u00a0 The focus of the expansion on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designerofreality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}