Florida Hospital DeLand Unveils $70,000 BirthCare Renovations

DELAND, Fla. - March 5, 2015 - PRLog -- After three months, Florida Hospital DeLand has completed renovations the hospitals 18-bed BirthCare Center.

The Florida Hospital DeLand Foundation donated nearly $70,000 to finance the renovations, including painting the rooms and adding furniture such as pull-out couches and tables and chairs for guests.

“Florida Hospital DeLand is committed to providing birth care and obstetrics services,” said Lorna Jean Hagstrom, Florida Hospital DeLand Foundation chair. “Labor can be a long experience sometimes, and expecting or new parents can get exhausted through the process. We wanted to provide that comfort for them so they can rest and care for their babies.”

These completed renovations come on the heels of Florida Hospital’s recent announcement to merge the operations of the BirthCare Centers at its hospitals in Daytona Beach and DeLand.

Both obstetrics units at Florida Hospital DeLand and Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center will remain open and active as the hospitals standardize processes, policies, and procedures. With this new integration, the birth care units at these two hospitals will be connected more formally than ever before. Staff and nurses from both units will be cross-trained to provide extra support so that they can work effectively at either location during times of high patient census.

In the last year, Florida Hospital DeLand has made efforts to strengthen its birth care program. In August 2014, the hospital opened a new obstetrics and gynecology practice at Victoria Medical Park with local obstetricians/gynecologists Dr. Hussain Rawji and Dr. Jeffrey Brooks, as well as certified nurse midwife Cindy Feldman.

In addition, Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center has plans to open a Level II NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) in late 2016.

About Florida Hospital DeLand
Florida Hospital DeLand is a member of Adventist Health System, a faith-based health care organization with 45 hospital campuses and nearly 8,300 licensed beds in 10 states. With 156-beds, Florida Hospital DeLand is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and Disease-Specific Care Certified by the Joint Commission in Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement Surgery. Additionally, the hospital is Chest Pain Accredited with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and is also a Certified Stroke Center. For more information about Florida Hospital DeLand, visit www.fhdeland.org.