The Family Care Center at Beloit Memorial Hospital
The Family Care Center offers many services including Labor and Delivery,
a level II Nursery, Mother Baby care in our Post Partum area, and Pediatrics.
The Center is staffed with professional Obstetric and Pediatric nurses
who combine technology with the professional care that is so important
for women and children.
Certified instructors offer a broad range of birth education classes and
a certified lactation consultant provides assistance to mothers to help
ensure a successful breastfeeding experience.
Current Classes with complete descriptions below:
Big Brother/Big Sister Class
Birth Preparation Classes in English and Spanish
Breastfeeding Classes
Family Care Center Tours
Operation Timothy (Beloit Hospital orientation and tour for first graders
from area schools)
Childbirth Preparation Classes
Family Care Center Focuses on Healthy and Safe Newborns
Staff
Beloit Health System’s Family Care staff is skilled and trained to
provide expert testing in some important areas of infant health. Every
RN is trained in Neonatal Resuscitation and has practiced drills and passed
skills tests for rare, but potential, situations such as labor and delivery
emergencies.
Respiratory Care
The Family Care Center offer CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure)
to assist newborns who need respiration assistance. This allows the Family
Care Center to stabilize and to keep more newborns in the nursery and
close to their parents.
Hearing Screening
Every newborn has a hearing screening. According to the American Academy
of Pediatrics, hearing loss is one of most frequently occurring birth
defects. Approximately three out of 1000 infants are born with moderate,
profound, or severe hearing loss. If hearing loss is not detected and
treated early, it can impede speech, language and cognitive development.
Heart Health
Every newborn also has a Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) pulse oximetry
test. This is a simple, non-invasive test. This is an important test to
be sure babies go home healthy without unrecognized critical heart defects.
Baby Warmers
The Family Care Center has new GE Warmers used for all deliveries, including
C-section infants in the operating room. The warmers have all the equipment
necessary for a complete infant resuscitation if necessary.
Alarm System
For additional safety for newborns, the Family Care Center has a sophisticated
infant alarm system with staff who routinely practice potential infant
abduction drills.
For more information about services in Beloit Health System’s Family
Care Center, please call
608-364-5230.
Current Classes with complete descriptions below:
Big Brother/Big Sister Class
Birth Preparation Classes in English and Spanish
Breastfeeding Classes
Family Care Center Tours
Operation Timothy (Beloit Hospital orientation and tour for first graders
from area schools)
Childbirth Preparation Classes
For more information about services in Beloit Health System’s Family
Care Center, please call
608-364-5230.
