The New Perinatal Unit
The new Perinatal Unit on the 4th floor of the Interior Heart and Surgical Centre replaces the hospital’s labour and delivery unit, postpartum and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Strathcona Building. It features:
- expanded patient and clinical space,
- central neonatal monitoring,
- new surgical suite for caesarean section deliveries,
- single-patient post-partum rooms, and
- an upgraded neonatal intensive care unit.
Since this new unit is under the same roof as the hospital’s new operating rooms, physicians can provide urgent cesarean section deliveries, vastly improving patient care in critical situations.
For staff and physicians, this new design greatly improve efficiency and infection control, increase privacy and isolation, and support KGH’s no restriction visitation policy. The unit contains:
- One operating room
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (with single room options)
- 5 labour and delivery rooms
- One labour and delivery isolation room
- 9 private patient rooms
- 4 semi- private patient rooms
- Labour assessment stretchers
- A staff lounge
- A family waiting room
- A patient and family nourishment centre
The design also takes into account the need for comfort: the enhanced patient and family-centred environment and private rooms create a warm atmosphere, fostering a sense calm and well-being for new mothers and their loved ones.
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