Women's & Children's

Overview

Special care for premature or ill newborns
Ingalls is home to a highly specialized nursery that is rated Level II Plus. This distinction recognizes the advanced monitoring equipment and technology used in our nursery and the special training our staff has completed in everything from ventilator support to how to care for the highest risk newborns.

Ingalls mother/baby capabilities also include two state-of-the-art surgical suites for cesarean deliveries, located down the hall from the maternity suites.

Taking care of families
Children's Memorial Hospital has long been recognized as one of the nation's top 10 children's hospitals. Ingalls' partnership with this prestigious hospital brings highly skilled specialists to Harvey.

Children's Memorial neonatologists and pediatricians practice at Ingalls 24/7. And if your baby requires off-site expertise in heart care, images of your baby's heart can be viewed at Children's Memorial through technology that transmits echocardiograms in real time. Ingalls is the only hospital in the South Suburbs to offer this time and life-saving innovation.

Your care team
At Ingalls, obstetricians and pediatricians work hand in hand with many other specialists including anesthesiologists, dieticians, therapists, respiratory specialists, social workers, certified lactation consultants to assist with breastfeeding and doulas to assist with labor and delivery.

To find a doctor in Women's & Children's call Ingalls Care Connection at 800-221-2199.

Children's care
The pediatricians at Ingalls perform surgeries and treat acute trauma and major childhood diseases for newborns through age 17. Children are also treated for more specialized conditions such as gastroenteritis, sickle cell anemia and respiratory diseases.

Special touches
• Separate women's health wing - provides women with
   gynecological, medical and surgical care
• 20 private maternity suites - contain televisions with
   VCRs, sleeper sofas for baby's dad or support person
   to spend the night, hardwood floors, large showers,
   soft lighting, plush furnishings and a wooden glider to
   rock baby to sleep
• Valet "Stork" parking - for pre-registered patients.
   Patients drive up to the hospital's main entrance and
   present their VIP pass. A staff member meets them in
   the lobby and personally escorts them to their labor
   and delivery suite.
• Taking Care of Mom and Baby - created by our
   maternity staff, this book is our gift to every woman
   who delivers at Ingalls. The content provides helpful
   answers about baby's care in those first important
   days.
• Playroom for inpatient children - helps kids feel like
   they're at home

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