Baby unit in pounds 7m revamp; HEALTH: Redevelopment of neonatal wards planned.Byline: By Alison Dayani HEALTH CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM Women's Hospital Women's Hospital of Greensboro (part of Moses Cone Health System) As the state's first free-standing hospital dedicated to women, the Women's Hospital of Greensboro is a 134-bed hospital is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art, compassionate and personalized care to women is to carry out a pounds 7 million redevelopment of its baby unit as medics Med´ics n. 1. Science of medicine. battle to cope with a surge in birth rates across the city. Renovations will get under way in coming weeks to create state-of-the-art neonatal neonatal /neo·na·tal/ (ne?o-nat´'l) pertaining to the first four weeks after birth. ne·o·na·tal adj. Of or relating to the first 28 days of an infant's life. wards with the potential for 50 cots, of which 26 are for intensive and high dependency care to cope with the growing demand from smaller and premature tots. Claire Austin, spokeswoman for Birmingham Women's Hospital, said the development would boost cot numbers from the current eight intensive care, four high dependency and 20 special care cots. "Demand for neonatal cots has grown year on year as the birth rate has risen and also because doctors are able to treat increasingly small and younger babies than before," said Ms Austin. "More than 800 babies are treated in the Birmingham Women's Hospital neonatal unit every year. "Some babies just need a little extra support during their first few days of life while the smallest and sickest babies need intensive care for several months before they are well enough to go home." Births in the city are expected to rise by an unprecedented 5,000 in the next two to three years putting more pressure on maternity and neonatal services. Latest Birmingham City Council figures reveal there were 2,000 more births in the city in 2007 compared to five years earlier in 2002. The causes of the surge are believed to be more young women of child-bearing age living in Birmingham, and a new wave of immigrants. Birmingham Women's Hospital last year raised concerns among commissioning Primary Care Trust managers after it ran up extra costs by treating far more pregnant women than planned, going pounds 57,000 over budget in June. An expectant mother expectant mother n → futura madre f expectant mother expect n → werdende Mutter f expectant mother n , Zakera Reyes, a 32-year-old engineer with Network Rail, also complained that despite living two miles away from the Women's Hospital, where she had her first child, she was unable to have her twins there as they were fully booked. Parents and babies treated on neonatal wards at Birmingham Women's Hospital will come together for a thanksgiving service at Birmingham Cathedral There are three cathedrals in Birmingham, England:
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