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In 1992, the five-story patient tower opened, making Mission Hospital the largest medical center in south Orange County with a total of 274 beds. The Fetal Diagnostic Center and the Mission Rehabilitation Center opened. In 1993, the Children's Hospital at Mission, now known as CHOC at Mission, opened on the fifth floor of Mission Hospital. It ...
Centinela hospital in Inglewood, California, will close its maternity ward later this month after the family of a Black woman who died in labor sued. Maternity ward to close as family calls for ...
Image credits: bonlow87 #5. Was a student nurse shadowing a community health visitor. Visited a pregnant woman who hadn't found out the gender of the baby yet.
A 2012 Cochrane review compared traditional hospital births with alternative, home-like settings in or near conventional hospital labor wards. In comparison with traditional hospital wards, home-like settings had a trend towards an increase in spontaneous vaginal birth , continued breastfeeding at six to eight weeks, and a positive view of care ...
In 2021, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. [9] This is 2.6 times the rate for White women. [1] Approximately 1 in 6 Black infants were born in maternity care deserts and 1 in 4 Native American babies were born in maternity care deserts. [1]
The US has the "highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world." [82] In the United States, the maternal death rate averaged 9.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births during the years 1979–1986, [83] but then rose rapidly to 14 per 100,000 in 2000 and 17.8 per 100,000 in 2009. [84]
Ground was broken in September 2014 to build a 120-bed replacement hospital at St. Luke's, after years of dispute [40] over whether CPMC would continue to operate a hospital in the Mission District. [41] [42] Mission Bernal Campus officially opened ahead of schedule on August 25, 2018. [43]
Miller Children's and Women's is one of only eight free-standing children's hospitals in California — treating more than 14,000 children each year — and has become a regional pediatric destination for more than 84,000 children, who need specialized care in the outpatient specialty and satellite centers.