Good Samaritan Hospital Family Birthing Center
Address
255 Lafayette Avenue 5th FloorSuffern, NY 10901
The Family Birthing Center, located at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY, provides comprehensive obstetrics and gynecology services. The Center also offers a NICU and a dedicated OB Emergency Department that offers expectant mothers and families high-quality, specialized labor and delivery care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Physicians are qualified to evaluate and treat gynecologic conditions as well as labor and delivery services. The Family Birthing Center at Good Samaritan Hospital is a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), which is headquartered in Valhalla, New York and includes hospitals across seven campuses, 60 ambulatory care sites, nearly 13,500 employees and nearly 3,000 attending physicians.
The Family Birthing Center features nine labor, delivery and recovery suites with private baths and therapeutic showers with benches. Each room is equipped with a television, sleep chair, and beautiful scenic views. The Labor and Delivery Unit also has a two-bedded antepartal room and a two-bedded PACU (post anesthesia care unit) for women to recover immediately after having a cesarean section. There are 34 private mother/baby rooms, each with a TV, refrigerator and a sleep chair or cot and plenty of room for baby.
The unit is home to the region's only dedicated obstetrics emergency department that offers expectant mothers and families high-quality, specialized labor and delivery care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The program's board-certified OB physicians are on-site all day, every day to ensure expectant mothers receive expert care at a moment's notice. The physicians and highly-skilled nurses are available to deliver babies if a patient's own physician is unavailable and will respond to any obstetric emergency.
In addition to two newborn nurseries, the center includes a Level 2 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).