Women's Pavilion
General Information:
- All staff from L&D and nurseries required to maintain Neonatal Resuscitation Certification
- Low Staff turnover rate
- Low Nurse/Patient ratio
- High patient satisfaction scores, recently mentioned in Style Magazine/Channel 12 survey
- State-of-the-art infant security
- Complimentary birth certificate with infant's footprints
- Complimentary baby blanket
- Photo service through That's My Baby. The picture is digital, and can be viewed immediately for the selection of the pose. The picture is taken right in the mother's room, just after she signs a consent form.
- Discounted carseat available for purchase in the Gift shop (Cosco Touriva)
- Educational channels specific to women's health issues, postpartum, and newborn care and feeding
- Pager loaner program available (Call 289-4522 for more information)
Prenatal Classes:
Henrico Doctors' Hospital has elected to provide free comprehensive prenatal education classes to meet your busy lifestyle. Classes are taught on-site or at the Henrico Doctors' Hospital Education Center, nearby at 8002 Discovery Drive. Classes are taught by Women's Pavilion staff nurses. Please call 320-3627 to register.
- Ready for Pregnancy?
- Early Bird
- Multiples
- Labor Basics
- Baby Basics
- Fast Track to Labor & Delivery
- Breastfeeding
- For Baby's Sake
- Safe Ride
- Pediatric CPR
- Tours
- Sibling
- Fitness Classes
- Yoga Classes
Lobby:
- Waiting area for family
- Waiting room with television
- Labor & Delivery house phone allows patient to notify L&D of her arrival
Labor & Delivery:
- Nursing support for your choice of birth options
- Secured unit for the safety of our patients and their babies
- LDR's for laboring, delivering, and high risk antepartum patients
- Fetal monitoring with centralized viewing at nurses' station
- Birthing beds
- Cesarean section/delivery rooms
- Twenty-four hour anesthesia and neonatology coverage
- A special tub is available for use during labor
Postpartum:
- Beautifully decorated rooms
- Vital statistics clerk to file birth certificate and application for social security number
- Nourishment room
- Open visitation 9am-9pm. Significant other after 9pm.
- Lactation Consultant-breastfeeding class 3 days/week, breastfeeding assistance, lactation center with warm-line for calls. Follow-up appointments for breastfeeding assistance available.
- Postpartum breastfeeding support group
Newborn Nursery:
Our staff's primary responsibility is to care for your baby, and provide you with basic knowledge to enable you to care for you newborn.
- Admission nursery for initial assessment of newborn
- Family centered care allows baby to stay with mom as much as she desires
- Patient Education Coordinator provides the area's only bath & baby care class while you are in the hospital
- Follow-up phone call to check on how you and your baby are doing at home.
Progressive Care Nursery (PCN),
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU):
- 33 bed unit
- Level II & Level III care
- 24 hour in house Neonatologist coverage
- Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Bonding/Breastfeeding rooms
- Latest technologies
- Parents welcome 24 hours
- All RN staff, with low nurse/patient ratio
- Lactation consultant & patient educator
- Physical therapist & feeding specialist
- Developmental Follow-up Clinic (weblink)
Pediatrics:
- 16 bed unit with bright sunny rooms
- Infants through 18 years of age
- Play therapist/playroom
OB-GYN Unit:
Our women's specialty unit is for GYN post-op patients, high risk antepartum patients, and postpartum patients
- All private rooms
- Fetal monitoring with centralized viewing at nurse's station if you require hospitalization during pregnancy
Other Special Services:
- Diagnostic Center (weblink)
- Henrico Healthy Families
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