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offers comprehensive perinatal and postpartum
services with three private labor and
delivery rooms, six postpartum beds, two obstetric
triage bays, cesarean rooms, a Level II
special care nursery, waiting/sleeping area for
family members, and a staff lounge.
A distinctive feature of the birth center is an
innovative couplet care model called " niclet "
care, in which infants with Level II needs, once
stabilized in the Level II nursery, can recover in
a private postpartum room, complete with neonatal
headwall, alongside their mothers. " [Each
room] has everything baby would need right
there, " Henson says.
V
IRGINIA MASON MEDICAL
CENTER in Seattle made
a strategic decision to offer
childbirth services on
its main adult campus for
the first time in more than
20 years, partnering with
women's services provider
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) Franciscan.
" There was a natural synergy between CHI
Franciscan and Virginia Mason, " says Marie
Henson, associate principal at Perkins&Will
(Seattle), whose firm designed the new
20,000-square-foot Virginia Mason Birth
Center, which opened in August 2020.
Located in shell space of an existing building
on the Virginia Mason campus, the center
The center's " niclet "
rooms include a neonatal
headwall to provide
the monitoring and
support infants with Level
II care needs require
while remaining in a
postpartum room. The
rooms are finished in
soft blue-green tones to
promote a sense of calm
and facilitate recovery.
Furthermore, the setup is designed so that the birth experience can be
handled on a single floor, regardless of care level. " In other facilities you
might be transferred to postpartum on another floor, and that would
feel like a shift in your care, " says Tiffany Knouff, registered nurse and
executive division director of the women's and children's service line at
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. " We tried to build everything into the
room from the lowest possible intervention birth you can experience to
the highest. "
The overall aesthetic of the birth center is a boutique setting with
each patient room featuring a large window for ample daylighting and
views to the surrounding neighborhood. To create a cozy and familiar
environment, elements such as wood finishes and decorative pendant
lighting were incorporated, while the color palette for the labor and delivery
rooms is inspired by the natural gradient of a sunrise. " The overall
color palette is used to create a calm and serene backdrop to what is a
very intense and potentially overwhelming experience, " Henson says.
-Shannon O'Connor, freelance writer
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