Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Center for Women and Newborns, Boston, MA
The Center for Women and Newborns is designed to offer the most comprehensive continuum of women's medical services in the country. The focus of care is on strengthening the family unit in a welcoming, state-of-the-art facility.
Key Features
- Consolidates women’s services in one 12-story building.
- Includes a 24-bed labor/delivery/recovery suite, 46-bed newborn intensive care unit, 90-bed post-partum suite, and ambulatory OB/GYN and women’s health services.
- Unites surrounding stylistic elements, strengthens the urban design character of the campus, and enhances relationships among the hospital’s buildings.
- Features the world’s first interventional magnetic resonance imaging system.
- Creates one of the first prototypes for developing active labor management and for establishing a single standard of care regardless of a patient’s economic status.
- First facility in Massachusetts to provide only private rooms in the labor, delivery, and postpartum suites.