Trinity Health Birth Center - Grand Rapids Hospital
Hours
Comfortable Private Birthing Rooms
Our private birthing rooms are warm and inviting. We furnish them with many of the comforts of a bedroom at home. You’ll appreciate your private bathroom equipped with hydrotherapy. Should a special need arise, these furnishings also store advanced state-of-the-art medical equipment. If a cesarean delivery (c-section) is required, the Birth Center also has a special suite, fully equipped to handle these procedures.
Every Option for Managing Labor
Nearly every mother-to-be in labor finds some labor and pain management techniques more beneficial than others. We have many medical and non-medical options to help you through labor. Comforts such as soaking tubs, shower jets, sound machines, massages, dim lighting and other therapies offer relaxation. With the advice of your health care provider, you might decide an epidural or medication is best for you. We will do our best to offer whatever options provide the greatest comfort.
Your Special Delivery
With your health care provider, you decide what special plans to make for the delivery of your baby. We can help you make the occasion even more memorable and meaningful by including the father, special family members or a birthing coach. They can be a great source of personal comfort and emotional support for you. Whatever your ideas, share them with us.
Mother-Baby Care
Rooming-in together is the best way for you and your baby to bond. Evidence supports that moms and babies who room-in get more sleep and better quality sleep. We will do what we can to keep you and your baby together.
Leapfrog Award
Trinity Health Grand Rapids Hospital has been named as a Best Maternity Care Hospital for maternity care excellence. This includes achieving lower rates of C-Sections (NTSV), early elective delivery, and episiotomy, as well as assuring bilirubin screening for all newborns and blood clot prevention techniques for mothers delivering via C-section.
EAM Hospital Maternity Care Award
Trinity Health Birth Center – Grand Rapids Hospital was awarded the EAM Hospital Maternity Care Award, in which hospitals were evaluated in four areas: cesarean rates (≤ 29.3% of low-risk deliveries), episiotomy rates (≤ 5% of deliveries), elective early delivery rates (≤ 5% of deliveries), and maternity care processes (90% or greater). The data is from The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C. based organization aiming to improve health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers.
The Highest Level of Neonatal Care
It’s seldom that a newborn needs extra medical care, but it’s reassuring to know that if your baby does, the highest level of neonatal care is right here. Trinity Health Grand Rapids’ Neonatal Intensive Care is a Level III facility, staffed with neonatalogists. This specialized care includes the services of specially trained neonatal advanced practitioners, 24 hours a day.
Visiting Hours
Family members are always welcome to be with you and your baby as much as you wish. Others are invited to visit during scheduled visiting hours.
Before You Leave
Your postpartum care begins with the knowledgeable guidance of our nurses and staff. We’re ready to teach, listen and answer your questions. We’ll give you helpful instruction on how to successfully feed your newborn. We’ll show you proper techniques for holding, diapering and bathing. Special Instructions: Please have this page listed on the pregnancy and childbirth section of the website.