Donna Smith, MD,
Obstetrician/Gynecologist
Robert Burnett, MD,
Obstetrician/Gynecologist
Marta Poore,
Certified Nurse Midwife
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Ketchikan General Hospital
OB/Maternity Unit recently sponsored a contest to re-name the
Department. The result was the new name: New Beginnings
Birthing Center.
Eighty-eight entries were received,
and OB nurses and KGH employees identified three top choices.
On Saturday, May 10th, the hospital sponsored a Baby Fair, and
the visitors to the fair voted from among the top three choices.
Four different contest participants suggested the name New
Beginnings Birthing Center.
The New Beginnings Birthing
Center offers a family based, non-interventional style, with
four fully equipped rooms for labor, delivery, newborn and recovery
care, and two additional rooms for post-surgical moms and infants.
With the recent addition of a hospital-based midwifery option,
and a second Obstetrician/Gynecologist, the unit offers a full
range of care to the people of southern Southeast Alaska.
Donna Smith, MD, Robert Burnett,
MD, and Marta Poore, Certified Nurse Midwife, make up the medical
team along with ten full time and four part time registered nurses
specially trained in OB and neonatal care.
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