A PLACE FOR MOTHERS; GLENDALE HOSPITAL SHOWS OFF SOON-TO-OPEN MATERNITY CENTER.Byline: Daily News Glendale Adventist Medical Center Glendale Adventist Medical Center is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. It was founded in 1905. Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a sister institution of Loma Linda University Medical Center and is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital system. celebrated on Sunday the first hospital building completed under a federal earthquake replacement program - its $26 million maternity services and outpatient surgery Outpatient Surgery, also referred to as ambulatory surgery or same-day surgery, is surgery that does not require an overnight hospital stay. The term “outpatient” arises from the fact that surgery patients may go home do not need an overnight hospital center. With a ``sneak preview'' bash that featured music, clowns, puppeteers, a petting zoo and a carnival menu of pretzels, nachos, hot dogs and churros, hospital officials cut the ribbon on the new four-story facility and welcomed the community for tours. The Maternity & Outpatient Surgery Center will open later this month, hospital spokeswoman Alicia Gonzalez said. Located between the main hospital building and the Physicians Medical Terrace, the surgery center will offer new moms spacious rooms with spectacular third- or fourth-floor views of downtown Glendale, freeways and mountains. With special beds that can be pulled apart to become birthing beds and then reassembled, moms will be able to undergo labor, deliver their babies and spend their recovery time all in the same room without having to change beds. And, Gonzalez explained, ``Dads are welcome to spend the night. There's a chair in there that reclines into a bed. It's really neat.'' The new facility contains a neonatal intensive care unit Noun 1. neonatal intensive care unit - an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn NICU ICU, intensive care unit - a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care ; 30 labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum rooms; two C-section rooms; a nursery; an antepartum testing Antepartum Testing Definition Antepartum testing consists of a variety of tests performed late in pregnancy to verify fetal well-being, as judged by the baby's heart rate and other characteristics. area; four operating rooms; and preoperative pre·op·er·a·tive adj. Preceding a surgical operation. preoperative preceding an operation. preoperative care the preparation of a patient before operation. and recovery rooms. The center also contains classroom and meeting rooms, and has a breast center built with the help of a $50,000 donation from Sam and Gracie Carvajal, Gonzales said. Sam Carvajal is director of the medical center's laboratory. The building is the first to be completed under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Seismic Hazard Mitigation Program for Hospitals, Gonzalez said. FEMA FEMA, n.pr See Federal Emergency Management Agency. contributed about $16 million. The rest came from hospital and fund-raising sources. Eventually, the old building that housed maternity services will be torn down, she said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Visitors to Glendale Adventist Medical Center's shoulder arthroscopy Arthroscopy Definition Arthroscopy is the examination of a joint, specifically, the inside structures. The procedure is performed by inserting a specifically designed illuminated device into the joint through a small incision. surgery room Sunday examine some new equipment at the site. John Lazar/Daily News |
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