Nearly 3,000 babies were born last year at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center and their parents went home to the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys armed with a crash course in baby care offered by the hospital’s award-winning Mother/Baby Care team.
Maternity care at Providence Holy Cross, just 15 minutes from Santa Clarita, earned the 2009 Maternity Care Excellence Award and was ranked among the top five percent in the nation by HealthGrades®, nationally recognized health care ratings organization. And our nurses have received the prestigious Magnet Status from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, meaning our nursing staff is among the best.
Holy Cross also is the only hospital in the area to be designated as a Baby Friendly Hospital, recognizing expertise in helping parents bond with their infants and in advocating breastfeeding.
Now Holy Cross is expanding and a new 142-bed patient care wing will be completed later this year. It will feature a new Women’s Pavilion with private labor/deliver/recovery suites and a 12-bed state-of-the-art neonatal ICU for premature and high-risk babies. The expert neonatologists already are on staff and prepared to handle the unexpected.
Trent Matthew Greenen was just three pounds, four ounces when he was born on February 26. Little Trent is coming along and there is still a chance he might require to transfer to the NICU at Providence Saint Joseph or Providence Tarzana medical centers.
His mom, Dora Greenen, is an oncology nurse at Holy Cross and knows what’s best for her tiny son. And while the Holy Cross NICU is not yet complete, she knows the right people are in place – highly trained nurses in the special care nursery and physicians skilled in caring for premature infants.
“The level of care is great, their knowledge is superior and every nurse is there for me when I have a question, even if I call in the middle of the night,” the Santa Clarita resident said.
For more information, please call 1-888-432-5464 and visit www.providence.org/holycross .