July 06, 2020
TriHealth and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center are announcing the expansion of the special delivery unit at the Cincinnati Children’s Fetal Care Center. Located at Cincinnati Children’s, the collaboration will provide comprehensive care for healthy moms expecting a baby with known medical conditions that require specialized care at the hospital’s level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and cardiac intensive care unit (CICU).
“Our Fetal Care Center is one of only a few comprehensive fetal care centers in the country. Moms, who are having babies with the most complex fetal conditions, will be able to deliver at Cincinnati Children’s and recover on-site while their baby receives immediate care from our pediatrics specialists.” said Daniel von Allmen, MD, surgeon-in-chief at Cincinnati Children's. “We believe this will have a huge impact on their outcomes because they will be able to stay together.”
Many of these fragile babies, whose lives are in the balance, are born at other hospitals in the region and urgently transported to the Cincinnati Children’s NICU and CICU. Through the collaboration with CCHMC and TriHealth, these babies will avoid emergency transport, as they will be born just down the hall from the NICU.
“This collaboration provides the opportunity for healthy moms with medically fragile babies to have a one stop shop for all of their care from the very start of their pregnancy through delivery and baby care,” said Mounira Habli , MD, Director TriHealth Fetal Care Center. “This integrated model of care will bring better outcomes for mom and baby in our community and around the country.”
In addition to two new operating rooms to increase access to fetal surgery procedures and c-section deliveries, the expansion will include six dedicated rooms for labor, delivery (vaginal or caesarean), triage unit and postpartum recovery. Special delivery services will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This means that moms will no longer stay behind at a birthing hospital, separated from their newborns. Families will be together in one location.
Through this collaboration, Cincinnati Children’s will provide expertise in fetal therapy, NICU care and pediatric sub-specialty services. TriHealth, with the largest group of maternal-fetal-medicine specialists in the market, will provide expertise in obstetrics/maternal-fetal medicine.
For more information on this collaboration, visit TriHealth.com.
This is a wonderful collaboration! It spares a newborn a precarious transport and allows the mom to recover where her baby is!
Posted by: Cynde Zipperian on July 08, 2020
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What a great example of innovative healthcare delivery.
Posted by: Elizabeth Berter on July 08, 2020
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I am so grateful for the insight given to provide this for families...what a blessing!
Posted by: Beverly Oberhelman on July 08, 2020
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Beautiful collaboration. Blessing for moms and babies and whole family.
Posted by: Jana Widmeyer on July 08, 2020
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