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Types of ResourcesThe most complete low-risk obstetrical care in the region can be found at Erlanger East Hospital.
- Maternity Care & C-Sections
- Neonatal Care
- Affiliation with Children's Hospital at Erlanger
- Prenatal Classes
- Car Seat Checks
- Breastfeeding Support
Maternity Care & C-sections
Erlanger Women’s Health specializes in providing family-centered childbirth for deliveries and babies born at 32-weeks gestation or above.
Spacious and beautifully decorated birthing suites, considerably larger than traditional hospital rooms, allow families to experience their baby's birth together. Those who give birth vaginally will labor, deliver, recover and receive postpartum care from specially trained doctors and nurses in the comfort of their own private birthing suites.
Erlanger Women’s Health routinely performs scheduled and unscheduled C-sections in state-of-the-art operating rooms. After the baby's birth, mother and child are moved to our post-partum care unit where the entire family can celebrate the happy occasion.
Each suite is equipped with the latest technology in fetal monitoring, as well as special accommodations such as a TV/DVD player, rocking chair, sleeping accommodations for a member of the family and bathrooms with sit-down showers with a shower massage. Room service is available for the patient as well as her family.
You and your family will rest comfortably knowing that our facility is equipped with a state-of-the-art infant security system.
Though a comfortable and relaxing environment are important components of the birthing experience at Erlanger East Hospital, the health and safety of you and your child are the primary considerations. We welcome those patients desiring an all-natural birthing experience, but 24-hour hour anesthesia service is available for pain management, including labor epidurals and C-sections.
Neonatal Care
If a family chooses Erlanger East Hospital for their delivery experience, they want to remain there with assurance of services being available for their baby if needed. A twelve-bed Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is available for babies who require a higher level of care. The same group of neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners from Level IV NICU downtown also rotate to cover Erlanger East Hospital. The Erlanger East Hospital NICU is staffed by specially trained nurses and respiratory therapists who are on site 24 hours/day. The NICU can care for sick or premature newborns needing IV therapy, apnea or cardiac monitoring and requiring respiratory support.
Parents are encouraged to participate in the care of their child and can visit the unit anytime except 6:30-7:30 AM and 6:30-730 PM. We encourage parents to attend medical rounds on their baby. The NICU offers a "Care by Parent" room for parents to stay overnight with their newborn before the baby is discharged. This private room provides an opportunity for parents to learn to care for their infant’s needs under the supervision of the specially trained nurses, where moms and dad have the opportunity to feed, diaper, and care for their children during the night. This gives parents the independence of caring for their child with peace of mind, knowing that the children’s vital signs are being monitored at the nursing station.
Affiliation with Children's Hospital at Erlanger
Should an unexpected problem arise that cannot be taken care of in the Level II NICU with your baby, the Neonatal/Pediatric Ground Transport Unit, crewed by specially trained neonatal staff, is available to transfer the baby to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children's Hospital at Erlanger downtown. This is the only Level IV NICU in the region, providing a level of care for premature and sick newborns that is not available at any other facility. Mothers will also be transported to the Erlanger Baroness Hospital to be with their infants.
Prenatal Classes
Classes & Support Groups
Child Passenger Car Seat Checks
Properly installed and appropriate car seats are important to the safety of your baby. Expectant parents should have their car seat installation inspected six weeks to a month prior to the due date. The certified child passenger safety technicians at Safe and Sound, the Injury Prevention service of Children’s Hospital at Erlanger, provide car seat inspections and teach caregiver’s how to properly install their child’s seat. Call 423-778-6691 to find locations and times of scheduled car seat installation inspections in our area.
Breastfeeding Support
A breastfeeding-friendly facility, Erlanger East Hospital has a lactation consultant who visits each breastfeeding mother during her stay, and our well-trained staff is able to assist. Our breastfeeding services include:
- In-room assistance with positioning and latching-on of baby
- Phone & office support following discharge