Maternal Child Care

The Ultimate in Care for Moms and Babies

For more than 60 years, St. Rose Dominican Hospitals has been providing family-centered care focused on the well-being of both mom and baby.

Maternal Child Center Brochure (PDF file)

According to Linda Doughty, Chief Nursing Executive, "The nurses at St. Rose really get to know the patients and their babies. While we have the most advanced equipment, the quality of the nursing care is what makes the difference. Without qualified and compassionate nurses, the equipment becomes secondary."

• A new Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) offering the highest level of neonatal treatment available opened at the Siena Campus in early 2008. This modern, comfortable 15-bed Level III NICU is the first in the southern part of the Las Vegas valley and features the most advanced technology for monitoring sick and/or premature newborns. Our caring, compassionate NICU staff provides a full range of neonatal treatment for medically fragile infants.
   
• Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) are now available at both the Rose de Lima and San Martín Campuses. Mothers giving birth to high risk babies can receive care at either campus where the Level II nurseries provide advanced care for premature and ill infants born at 32 weeks or above. The Level II NICUs feature advanced technology and board-certified neonatologists who tend infants 24 hours a day. The Rose de Lima Campus houses a 7-bed Level II NICU and 3-bed Level I Well Baby Nursery while the San Martín Campus houses a 6-bed Level II NICU and a 4-bed Level I nursery. 
   
• Our comfortable birthing suites are enhanced by our family-centered philosophy. We value the family as a unit and want to facilitate their bonding during this time - whether it is new fathers spending the night on the pullout beds in the patient rooms or siblings and/or fathers being present during the birth experience. 
    
  
    

• A support group of highly trained specialists, high tech equipment and well-equipped birthing suites ensure added safety for high risk and cesarean births.
    
• Having a baby can be both exciting and stressful. At St. Rose, we believe in attentive care, that is why during the post-delivery stay, one nurse cares for the mother and her baby together.

• St. Rose's informed parent philosophy extends to the bedside, where instructional classes are offered including infant care, new mother care, nutrition and other pertinent topics. In addition, families can take a number of birth-related classes through the WomensCare Center, including: Prepared Childbirth, Breast Feeding Instruction, Baby Basics/CPR, and Sibling and Parenting classes. Some of the classes are taught by the same nurses who work in the Maternal Child Centers, giving parents a familiar face when they arrive to have the baby.
    
• New mothers have a number of "freedoms" in how they deliver their babies. They can choose to deliver in an unconventional position, to walk or sit during labor or to opt for or against an intravenous tube during the birth process

For information on childbirth classes or for a tour of the Maternal Child Centers, call 702.616.4901.

(Updated 6/16/08).