Switching their model of care to better meet the needs of patients, the concept for the Family Birth Center design provides a hospitable, hotel-style, environment for families to welcome their most precious little additions.
Sanford Health Family Birth Center has a long history of providing award-winning care in North Dakota. As innovators in the healthcare industry, they opened their doors to welcome newborns and parents to a new state-of-the-art Family Birth Center in 2021.
Key Features
- Human-centered interaction
- Abundant natural light, a modern, welcome atmosphere, and soft, mood defining lighting reflects
- Sanford’s vision for the patient experience
- Refreshed outdated rooms, corridors, nurse stations, and family support spaces
- Reconfigured entry sequence
- Super graphics used as artwork and wayfinding
- Parent sleep rooms and family living rooms
Family Birth Center
- Updated amenities and birthing suites equipped with whirlpool tubs to help laboring mothers with post-partum pain
- Two new C-Section operating rooms with a camera system, allowing parents to be more involved with the birth of their baby
- 7 private labor and delivery rooms and 17 post-partum rooms
- 10 regular rooms, 4 double rooms for twins, 1 room for triplets
- Pull-out sofas and rockers to accommodate overnight visitors
NICU
- Significant remodel made the new unit twice as big as the former NICU
- Ten private rooms, four semi-private rooms, and a six-bed NICU critical care bay
- Private rooms give parents the opportunity to stay in a room with their babies
- First hospital in central and western North Dakota to offer private NICU rooms
- Cutting-edge lighting system significantly helps tiny babies born dependent to drugs or alcohol