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Local hospitals are looking toward expanding and renovating their women’s services departments to keep up with the increased demand for their services.
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Expanded capabilities Resolute Baptist Hospital has a Level II neonatal intensive care unit and provides care for babies born at 32 weeks gestation or older. Bernard said Resolute Baptist is in the process of expanding its services and has future ambitions to become a Level III NICU. A Level III NICU would allow the hospital to provide critical care for babies born before 32 weeks or that require specialized pediatric care or surgery. The nearest Level III NICUs are located in San Antonio at Christus Children’s and North Central Baptist. Resolute Baptist is also expanding its women’s services department to o er 15 postpartum beds for mothers to uti- lize after childbirth, have ve antepar- tum rooms for expecting mothers and expand to 17 labor rooms. “Our community is growing, and we just feel it’s time to grow with it,” said Kelli Culp, clinical manager of the NICU at Resolute Baptist. “And we’ve had a lot more [severe conditions], younger kiddos coming through our doors, more emergencies coming through our doors, so we are ready to have them and accept them.” Culp said Resolute Baptist went from around 40 deliveries a month to consistently delivering more than 100 babies a month since August 2022.
Amber Rodriguez, a resident of New Braunfels and mother to a set of triplets born at Resolute Baptist last year, said she enjoyed the level of care she received. “I’m happy they’re expanding,” Rodriguez said. “We found almost every single nurse we encountered to be genuinely caring and compassion- ate, … and I feel con dent that they’ll continue that culture as they grow.” Investing in motherhood Resolute Baptist added a laborist program to its Nest Women’s Services department in March, allowing the hospital to have an in-house obstetri- cian 24 hours a day. Dr. Kevin Blair, who has been an OB GYN in New Braunfels for 27 years, is the department chair at Christus Santa-Rosa New Braunfels for the Women and Children’s Department, director of women’s care at Christus and is involved with the laborist pro- gram at Resolute Baptist. Both local hospitals o er robot- ic-assisted gynecological surgery, and Christus Santa-Rosa New Braunfels recently acquired an MRI-guided breast biopsy procedure. Both robot- ic-assisted devices help to provide a less invasive procedure for patients and quicker recovery time. “It’s kind of revolutionized surgery,
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not just for us, but for all aspects,” Blair said. “My hysterectomies now [are] essentially outpatient.” Blair said the Center for Maternal and Fetal Care opened a location in New Braunfels within the past year. In an attempt to bring more special- ists into New Braunfels, some of the recent additions to women’s care from Christus include Dr. Jillian Grimm, a colon and rectal surgeon, and Dr. Rachel Kaczynski, a breast surgeon with Texas Oncology. Genifer Rucker, CEO of the Christus Santa Rosa hospital in New Braunfels, has made it a priority to renovate the Women’s Services Department at the hospital, invest in new technology and o er new OB GYN services. Her plans to modernize the department are anticipated to begin this summer. “We actually have very up-to-date technology, and we want the look and feel of the unit to match all of
the advanced technology that we’ve already invested in,” Rucker said. This past year, Christus Santa Rosa updated its NICU with new equip- ment, including monitoring systems, IV-supported technology, incubators and cribs. Christus Santa Rosa also has a unique program called Every Baby Matters, which is funded through the McKenna Foundation, the United Way and the hospital’s Friends Foun- dation. Part of the program includes a nurse providing a home visit to moth- ers in the time period after giving birth but before their rst obstetrics follow-up. The nurse is able to check the overall health of the mother and baby, including for signs of hyperten- sion and postpartum depression. “With the rise in maternal hyper- tension rates and other kinds of com- plications, it’s important that we have this medical entity that has so much
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