TOUR FEATURES HEALTH CENTER FOR WOMEN AT A.V. HOSPITAL.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- The public got to tour Antelope Valley Hospital's new women's health and obstetrics center, expected to open soon. The $24.3 million Women and Infants Pavilion will feature 39 postpartum beds, a 21-bed 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 , 22 newborn beds, 19 labor and delivery rooms, nine antepartum antepartum /an·te·par·tum/ (-pahr´tum) occurring before parturition, or childbirth, with reference to the mother. an·te·par·tum adj. Of or occurring in the period before childbirth. beds and 12 triage triage Division of patients for priority of care, usually into three categories: those who will not survive even with treatment; those who will survive without treatment; and those whose survival depends on treatment. rooms. The facility is located in a separate building south of the main hospital, which is the only one with a maternity ward in the Antelope Valley and handles about 5,000 births a year. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Visitors on July 22 look inside the new Woman and Infants Pavilion that is expected to open soon at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster. (2) A foldout fold·out n. 1. Printing A folded insert or section, as of a cover, whose full size exceeds that of the regular page. 2. A piece or part, as of furniture, that folds out or down from a closed position. bed in one of the new rooms gives dad a place to sleep along with the mom and baby. Gene Blevins/Staff Photographer |
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