Women's Hospital

1500 E. Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Women's Hospital opened in 1950 as a center dedicated to the care of pregnant women in a family atmosphere. Forty years later, the Maternal Child Health Center opened, providing a new front door for children’s and women’s services and offering expanded space for the Birth Center, the Holden NICU and other services.

In 2005 3,858 babies were born in the Women’s Birth Center. Women's Hospital is Southeast Michigan's regional perinatal center for high-risk pregnancies. A variety of specialized outpatient gynecological services are provided in such areas as gynecology/oncology, endocrinology, infertility and psychosexual counseling.

The hospital's 28-room, 32-maternity bed Birth Center was one of the first facilities in the country to offer single-room maternity care to all mothers and families. The Birth Center allows women to labor, give birth, recover and keep their babies with them in one private room until it is time to go home.

The U-M Hospitals also include the James and Lynelle Holden Perinatal Intensive Care Unit. The Holden unit was established in 1972 to provide continuity of care for women with complicated pregnancies, newborn infants experiencing exceptional medical problems and infants who may need continuous treatment during childhood. There are few health systems elsewhere in the country with this special arrangement of facilities. The 181,573 square foot unit has two delivery rooms, a 37-bed intensive care nursery and research laboratories.

FUTURE:
The new University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital is scheduled to open in 2012. Ob/Gyn clinics will share a floor with the Women's Birth Center, and the 50 single room maternity care beds in the Birth Center will all have natural light. Within the Women's Hospital Birth Center, the labor, delivery and recovery rooms will be 300 to 360 square feet to allow for access to state-of-the-art care, as well as space for families to celebrate the birth of their new babies.